Mono Shift

Entrance & Kinetic · Animated · pure CSS

The type morphs between a proportional sans and a monospace face on the variable font's MONO axis, the letters widening and squaring off in sync.

Mono Shift

How it works

Mono Shift is an animated entrance & kinetic text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.

Controls

Mono Shift exposes 2 dedicated controls — Hue and Speed — 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

/* Mono Shift — generated with TEXT-FX
 * HTML: just put the class on any element.
 * Font: 'Recursive', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Recursive', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(58 55% 76%);
  font-variation-settings: 'wght' 900, 'MONO' 0.6;
  animation: text-effect-mono 2.1s ease-in-out infinite alternate;
}

@keyframes text-effect-mono {
  from { font-variation-settings: 'wght' 900, 'MONO' 0; }
  to { font-variation-settings: 'wght' 900, 'MONO' 1; }
}

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

Category
Entrance & Kinetic
Type
Animated
Browser support
Variable-font MONO axis (Recursive) morphing proportional↔monospace.
Capabilities
pure

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