Animated glitch text effect with CSS only
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2020-09-23

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I don't think I'd use this very often, but it's a fun way to play around with CSS! A fun use of text-shadows, keyframes and clip-path can lead to a pretty nice looking glitch effect for some text.

One thing that's important is to stop the animation for users who prefer not having animations, so we take a look at that too.

web.dev article on prefers-reduced-motion: https://web.dev/prefers-reduced-motion/#(bonus)-forcing-reduced-motion-on-all-websites

Clip path tool: https://bennettfeely.com/clippy/

Codepen of this: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/YzqerQm

Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - Glitch setup
04:11 - Glitch animation
07:43 - Broken text effect
16:21 - prefers-reduced-motion
18:28 - outro

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