PSX Wobble

How it works

PSX Wobble is an animated glitch & distortion text effect rendered entirely in CSS. Each character is wrapped in its own span so it can animate independently — the HTML and JSX exports include that per-letter markup.

Controls

PSX Wobble exposes 5 dedicated controls — Steps, Wobble, Jitter Speed, Swim Speed and Palette 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

/* PSX Wobble — made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app
 * HTML: each character is wrapped in a <span> — see the HTML export.
 * Font: 'Syne', sans-serif (load from Google Fonts).
 */

.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 8px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  display: inline-block;
  white-space: pre;
  transform: skewX(-6deg);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  background: repeating-linear-gradient(68deg, hsl(171 34% 22%) 0%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 10%, hsl(61 30% 36%) 10%, hsl(61 30% 36%) 26%, hsl(44 38% 56%) 26%, hsl(44 38% 56%) 40%, hsl(48 46% 78%) 40%, hsl(48 46% 78%) 52%, hsl(32 34% 38%) 52%, hsl(32 34% 38%) 70%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 70%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  background-size: 220% 260%;
  filter: drop-shadow(1.5px 1.5px 0 hsl(140 25% 5%)) drop-shadow(-1px 0 0 hsl(140 25% 5%));
  animation:
    text-effect-jitter 1.70s steps(1, jump-end) infinite,
    text-effect-swim 0.60s steps(1, jump-end) infinite;
  animation-delay:
    calc(var(--i) * -0.1889s),
    calc(var(--i) * -0.126s);
}

@keyframes text-effect-jitter {
  0% { transform: translate(2px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
  11.11% { transform: translate(-1px, -2px) skewX(0deg); }
  22.22% { transform: translate(-1px, 0px) skewX(1deg); }
  33.33% { transform: translate(-1px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
  44.44% { transform: translate(-1px, 2px) skewX(1deg); }
  55.56% { transform: translate(0px, -2px) skewX(-1deg); }
  66.67% { transform: translate(2px, 1px) skewX(-1deg); }
  77.78% { transform: translate(0px, 0px) skewX(-1deg); }
  88.89% { transform: translate(0px, -1px) skewX(2deg); }
  100% { transform: translate(2px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
}
@keyframes text-effect-swim {
  0% { background-position: 93.3% 64%; }
  11.11% { background-position: 76.8% 28%; }
  22.22% { background-position: 38.2% 93.4%; }
  33.33% { background-position: 64% 10.7%; }
  44.44% { background-position: 8.2% 85.5%; }
  55.56% { background-position: 71.8% 62.4%; }
  66.67% { background-position: 88.4% 7.8%; }
  77.78% { background-position: 47.6% 97.5%; }
  88.89% { background-position: 95.1% 22.2%; }
  100% { background-position: 93.3% 64%; }
}

HTML

This effect needs the markup below (per-letter spans, SVG defs, or a data-text attribute).

<!-- Made with TEXT-FX · https://text-fx.app -->

<style>
.text-effect {
  font-family: 'Syne', sans-serif;
  font-weight: 700;
  letter-spacing: 8px;
  text-transform: none;
}

.text-effect {
  display: inline-block;
  white-space: pre;
  transform: skewX(-6deg);
}
.text-effect .fx-ch {
  display: inline-block;
  background: repeating-linear-gradient(68deg, hsl(171 34% 22%) 0%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 10%, hsl(61 30% 36%) 10%, hsl(61 30% 36%) 26%, hsl(44 38% 56%) 26%, hsl(44 38% 56%) 40%, hsl(48 46% 78%) 40%, hsl(48 46% 78%) 52%, hsl(32 34% 38%) 52%, hsl(32 34% 38%) 70%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 70%, hsl(171 34% 22%) 100%);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  color: transparent;
  background-size: 220% 260%;
  filter: drop-shadow(1.5px 1.5px 0 hsl(140 25% 5%)) drop-shadow(-1px 0 0 hsl(140 25% 5%));
  animation:
    text-effect-jitter 1.70s steps(1, jump-end) infinite,
    text-effect-swim 0.60s steps(1, jump-end) infinite;
  animation-delay:
    calc(var(--i) * -0.1889s),
    calc(var(--i) * -0.126s);
}

@keyframes text-effect-jitter {
  0% { transform: translate(2px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
  11.11% { transform: translate(-1px, -2px) skewX(0deg); }
  22.22% { transform: translate(-1px, 0px) skewX(1deg); }
  33.33% { transform: translate(-1px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
  44.44% { transform: translate(-1px, 2px) skewX(1deg); }
  55.56% { transform: translate(0px, -2px) skewX(-1deg); }
  66.67% { transform: translate(2px, 1px) skewX(-1deg); }
  77.78% { transform: translate(0px, 0px) skewX(-1deg); }
  88.89% { transform: translate(0px, -1px) skewX(2deg); }
  100% { transform: translate(2px, 0px) skewX(0deg); }
}
@keyframes text-effect-swim {
  0% { background-position: 93.3% 64%; }
  11.11% { background-position: 76.8% 28%; }
  22.22% { background-position: 38.2% 93.4%; }
  33.33% { background-position: 64% 10.7%; }
  44.44% { background-position: 8.2% 85.5%; }
  55.56% { background-position: 71.8% 62.4%; }
  66.67% { background-position: 88.4% 7.8%; }
  77.78% { background-position: 47.6% 97.5%; }
  88.89% { background-position: 95.1% 22.2%; }
  100% { background-position: 93.3% 64%; }
}
</style>

<div class="text-effect"><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:0;--n:9;--rev:8;--mid:4">Y</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:1;--n:9;--rev:7;--mid:4">o</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:2;--n:9;--rev:6;--mid:4">u</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:3;--n:9;--rev:5;--mid:4">r</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:4;--n:9;--rev:4;--mid:4"> </span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:5;--n:9;--rev:3;--mid:4">t</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:6;--n:9;--rev:2;--mid:4">e</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:7;--n:9;--rev:1;--mid:4">x</span><span class="fx-ch" style="--i:8;--n:9;--rev:0;--mid:4">t</span></div>

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