Paper Cutout

3D & Depth · Static · pure CSS

Stacked offset layers in graduated paper tones with a soft lifted shadow, for a layered paper-craft cut-out. Tactile depth without a flat extrude.

Paper Cutout

How it works

Paper Cutout is a static 3d & depth text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.

Controls

Paper Cutout exposes 3 dedicated controls — Paper Hue, Layers and Step — 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

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

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Bricolage Grotesque', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  color: hsl(160 40% 93%);
  text-shadow: 2.0px 2.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 86%), 4.0px 4.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 80%), 6.0px 6.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 74%), 8.0px 8.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 68%), 10.0px 10.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 62%), 12.0px 12.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 56%), 14.0px 14.0px 0 hsl(160 38% 50%);
  filter: drop-shadow(8px 14px 11px hsl(160 30% 6% / 0.45));
}

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

Category
3D & Depth
Type
Static
Browser support
All modern browsers
Capabilities
pure

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