Woven Mesh
Fill & Texture · Static · pure CSS
Two crossed repeating-gradient masks intersect via mask-composite so only their crossing squares survive, punching a grid of tiny holes clean through every letter like woven metal grille. Flip to Diamond for a criss-crossed weave, or flick on Crawl to drift the mesh slowly through the glyphs.
How it works
Woven Mesh is a static fill & texture text effect rendered entirely in CSS. It works on a single element — just add the .text-effect class, with no extra HTML.
Controls
Woven Mesh exposes 4 dedicated controls — Fill Hue, Mesh Gap, Weave Angle and Crawl — 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
/* Woven Mesh — 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: 4px;
text-transform: none;
}
.text-effect {
background: linear-gradient(155deg, hsl(215 55% 88%), hsl(223 75% 62%));
-webkit-background-clip: text;
background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
-webkit-mask-image: repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, #000 0px, #000 11px, transparent 11px, transparent 20px), repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, #000 0px, #000 11px, transparent 11px, transparent 20px);
mask-image: repeating-linear-gradient(0deg, #000 0px, #000 11px, transparent 11px, transparent 20px), repeating-linear-gradient(90deg, #000 0px, #000 11px, transparent 11px, transparent 20px);
-webkit-mask-position: 0px 0px, 0px 0px;
mask-position: 0px 0px, 0px 0px;
-webkit-mask-composite: source-in;
mask-composite: intersect;
filter: drop-shadow(0 0 2px hsl(215 85% 70% / 0.5)) drop-shadow(0 0 9px hsl(215 85% 70% / 0.5));
}
Pure CSS — just add the .text-effect class to any element.
- Category
- Fill & Texture
- Type
- Static
- Browser support
- background-clip:text + dual repeating-linear-gradient masks via mask-composite (all modern; standard mask-composite needs a recent Firefox)
- Capabilities
- pure