Letterpress

Shadow & Press · Static · pure CSS

A pressed-in letterpress look: a light highlight and a dark inset that match the background tone. Subtle, classy and theme-aware.

Letterpress

How it works

Letterpress is a static shadow & press text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.

Controls

Letterpress exposes 2 dedicated controls — Depth and Tint Hue — on top of the shared type controls (font, weight, letter-spacing and case). Open it in the generator to tune every value live, then copy the updated CSS.

CSS

/* Letterpress — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
 * HTML: just put the class on any element.
 * Font: 'Space Grotesk', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Space Grotesk', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: 0px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(86 12% 28%);
  text-shadow:
    0 1px 0.5px hsl(86 18% 42% / 0.7),
    0 -1px 0.5px hsl(86 40% 4% / 0.85);
}

Pure CSS — just add the .text-effect class to any element.

Category
Shadow & Press
Type
Static
Browser support
All modern browsers
Capabilities
pure

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