Text Shadow Generator
Build a CSS text-shadow from offset x/y, blur, spread, and color with live preview.
The Text Shadow Generator builds a CSS text-shadow from horizontal and vertical offset, blur, spread, and colour with a live preview. Copy the finished CSS once the effect looks right.
What is a Text Shadow Generator?
A Text Shadow Generator is a web-based tool that helps designers and developers create CSS text-shadow properties visually. It provides a real-time preview of how text will appear with different shadow configurations, allowing you to fine-tune the visual effect before applying it to your website. The generator takes four parameters: horizontal offset (X), vertical offset (Y), blur radius, and spread distance, along with the shadow color. This tool eliminates the need for guesswork when styling text shadows and ensures that your designs match your exact specifications before implementation. The controls cover the horizontal and vertical offset, the blur radius, the spread, and the shadow color, so every part of the effect can be tuned precisely.
The text-shadow property in CSS is used to add shadow effects to text, creating depth, emphasis, or artistic styling. By adjusting the offset values, you control the direction and distance of the shadow from the text. The blur radius determines how soft or sharp the shadow appears, with higher values creating softer edges. The spread property controls how much the shadow grows or shrinks relative to the original text. This generator simplifies the process of experimentation, letting you instantly see the results of your changes and copy the exact CSS code needed for your project. The live preview feature makes it easy to compare different shadow styles side by side or test various text colors and shadow colors for optimal contrast and readability.
Because everything runs locally in your browser, the values you enter and the CSS you produce never travel to any server or get logged by anyone. You can iterate on the offsets, the blur, the spread, and the color as many times as you like without uploading a single request, which keeps the whole workflow private and quick even on a slow connection. The declaration it writes out is plain, standards-based CSS, so you can paste it straight into a stylesheet or an inline style attribute and it will render correctly across modern browsers without adding any extra dependency.
How to use this Text Shadow Generator
- Enter the text you want to apply the shadow effect to in the Preview Text field.
- Set the text color using the color picker to match your design.
- Choose the shadow color and adjust the offset X and Y values to position the shadow.
- Set the blur radius to control shadow softness and the spread distance to grow or shrink the shadow.
- Click the CSS result area to copy the complete text-shadow property code.
- Click the preview text to copy just the CSS text-shadow value for easy integration.
FAQ
What is CSS text-shadow?
CSS text-shadow adds shadow effects to text elements. It takes offset X, offset Y, blur radius, spread distance, and color values. Multiple shadows can be applied to a single element.
How do I use the generated CSS?
Copy the generated CSS code and paste it into your stylesheet or inline style attribute. The shadow will apply to any text within the element where you use the text-shadow property.
Can I apply multiple shadows?
The generator creates one shadow at a time. You can generate multiple different shadows and combine them in your CSS by separating multiple text-shadow values with commas.
What units does the generator use?
The generator uses pixel (px) units for offset, blur, and spread values. These are the most common units for text-shadow and work well across all modern browsers.