Collection of free vanilla JavaScript text effect code examples: 3D, circle, animated, responsive, with motion path, with particles, with hover effects. Update of May 2020 collection. 45 new items.
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Creativity Now
Click anywhere to make new 3D art.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js
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Glow Sparks Text
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Interactive Variable Text
Playing with interactive variable type using p5.js with a CSS gradient. Plus a little dose of Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: p5.js
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Circular SVG Text Animation
Exploring some experimental circular SVG text effects for an intro animation.
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Responsive: yes
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Interactive Particles Text
Interactive particles text create with three.js.
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Dependencies: three.js
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Solid
Hover over, or tap this title.
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Responsive: no
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Repetition Text Animation
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Responsive: no
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BOOST
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Responsive: yes
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Text with Background Image GSAP Animation
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js
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GOOD MOOD
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Responsive: yes
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Furry
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GSAP JS: multiple text-shadow:hover
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: jquery.js, tweenmax.js
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Resizable Logo
Flipping multiple elements. Sliding layers. Ruler markers with gradients.
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Responsive: yes
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Mark Text Effect on Scroll with IO
Simple example of how to animate mark
style on scrolling, using Intersection Observer.
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Responsive: yes
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BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
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Responsive: yes
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Heart
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js
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Variable Font Animation
Introduction to Google Variable fonts with some GSAP animation sprinkled in to animate letters to and from low/high font-weights.
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: gsap.js
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WEEKEND
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Responsive: yes
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PROUD
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COFFEE FIRST
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Rough Notation
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Responsive: yes
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SNOOZE
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: gsap.js
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Black Lives Matter
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Responsive: no
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GSAP Text Animation
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js, lodash.js
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Dream Dangerously: Smoky Text on Hover
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Responsive: yes
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3D Text - Mouse Effect
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: p5.js
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LIGHT WORK
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Responsive: no
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HELLO
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Responsive: yes
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IN TOO DEEP
Playing with perceived depth and neon reflections. Using an isometric angle to start and fading in typography.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js
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Splitting Splash
Bouncy CSS text animation with Splitting.js.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: splitting.css, splitting.js
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SMASH
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Rolling Text Hover Animation
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Responsive: no
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Take It Easy
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: splitting.js
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Responsive Meandering Text with Splitting
Compatible browsers: Chrome, Edge, Opera, Safari
Responsive: yes
Dependencies: meanderer.js, splitting.js
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Motion Path Scaling
Using Resize Observer to scale the element using the path.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: splitting.js
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Number 8
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Hello, World!
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: gsap.js

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3D Kinetic Typography
Move your mouse over to experience magic.
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: three.js, kineticmemphis.js, buffergeometryutils.js
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Type Promise
Async text typing with promises.
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Responsive: no
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Particle Effects on Text Selection
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Responsive: yes
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Outlines and Overprints
An exploration in creating a more graphic headline treatment using overlaps, transparency, and color.
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Responsive: no
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Showreel Intro Text
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: gsap.sj, splittext3.js
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Neumorphism Typo
Neumorphism typography experiment with ThreeJS. Use cursor to move around the shiny effect. On mobile touch + drag screen.
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: three.js
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Dismantling Text with GreenSock
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js
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Cirle Text
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: circletype.js
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No Time To Die Title Sequence
Title lock up animation for the new Bond film, "No Time To Die". Hand rolled SVGs animated with GSAP. Each row has a separate time counter to make sequencing more simple to handle. Every part of each letter has it's own to make transform calculations easier also, as all transformations are from the root. This means no need to calculate scale or rotation offsets. Makes the markup more complex, but the animation easier. Complexity has to go somewhere...
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js

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Canvas Texture
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Responsive: yes
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Splitting and Motion Path
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: splitting.js
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Staggered Blink Text
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Responsive: no
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Stretch Typo
Stretch typo effect, with mobile support, to experiment with different mix-blend-modes
in CSS while having a masked galaxy photo in the background. Move your mouse or drag your finger to stretch the typo and stop the animation. Click the black banner or your right/left arrow keys to switch the CSS mix-blend-mode
, and experience the different effects with the masked galaxy photo. Headline is editable, so place your cursor in the text and type anything else you'd like.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: splitting.js
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Vibes
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Responsive: no
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Bricks
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js, splittext3.js
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EXTENDED
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: gsap.js, scrubgsaptimeline.js, motionpathplugin.js, motionpathhelper.js, drawsvgplugin3.js, morphsvgplugin3.js, customease3.js, customwiggle3.js
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Typing Effect Using JavaScript
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Spotlight Cursor Text Screen
Using CSS screen blend mode and GSAP to create the cursor and text effect.
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Responsive: yes
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Blast Text
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Responsive: yes
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Animated SVG Signature
A demo for animating SVG signature or autograph.
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Responsive: yes
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Hover Alpha Effect
Move your mouse or drag your finger to change the alpha opacity color of the text, and to see 3 colorful text-shadow
effects. The headline is editable, so place your cursor in the text and type anything else you'd like.
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Responsive: no
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Particle Text
Canvas pixel manipulation using typed arrays. Particles react to mouse movement.
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Responsive: yes
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Staggered Glow In Text
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Responsive: yes
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Text Along Path SVG
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: tweenmax.js
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GSAP 3 & ETC Variable Font Caterpillar
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Responsive: no
Dependencies: gsap.js, splittext3.js
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Play Hard
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: tweenmax.js
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Selfie Crawl
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Responsive: yes
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Perspective Hover Effect
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Responsive: yes
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Flexible, Full-Width, Justified Text Blocks
Thanks to CSS Flexbox and JavaScript, this example stretches each line of a block quote the full width of its container and resizes the font accordingly. CSS Grid allows for placing end-of-line punctuation next to lines without interrupting the visual quadrangle made by the letters.
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Responsive: yes
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Primary Colors Isometric Text
3D isometric text made using a bit of JavaScript and CSS custom properties. The text is both selectable and indexable by search engines.
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Responsive: yes
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Blended Text Layers
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Responsive: yes
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Multiline Underline with Any Color
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Responsive: yes
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Untitled
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Text Scramble Effect
A little text decoding/scramble effect.
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Three.js Text Animation
Fifth in a series of experiments with three.js and type.
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Responsive: yes
Dependencies: three.js, tweenmax.js
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Futuristic Resolving/Typing Text Effect feat. GLaDOS
Futuristic resolving/typing text effect usually found in game or movie cut scenes to reveal text on screen.
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