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  • 1. Unicode Characters
  • 2. The text-shadow Property
  • 3. Horizontal Text Shadow Offset
  • 4. Vertical Text Shadow Offset
  • 5. Text Shadow Feathering
  • 6. The Text Shadow Color
  • 7. Embedded Effect for Text
  • 8. Decorative Retro Shadow
  • 9. Challenge: Psychedelic Shadows
  • 10. Logo: Custom Font
  • 11. Logo: Icon Font
  • 12. Logo: Size Alignment
  • 13. Applying Decorative Styling to the Line, Step 1
  • 14. Applying Decorative Styling to the Line, Step 2
  • 15. The text-indent Property
  • 16. The: first-letter Pseudo Element
  • 17. : first-line Pseudo Element
  • 18. Column Markup: The column-count Property
  • 19. Column Markup: The column-width Property
  • 20. Column Markup: The column-gap Property
  • 21. Text Direction
  • 22. Text Direction and Tables
  • 23. Overflowing Text
  • 24. Spacing Between Words
  • 25. Challenge: Why So Serious?
  • 26. Challenge: Play With Fonts
Challenge: Psychedelic Shadows
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Decorative Retro Shadow

Another text effect can be created from two sharp shadows.

The shadows are shifted to one side. The lower shadow is shifted a little more, and its color is different from the background color. The upper shadow is shifted a little less, and its color matches the background color. This produces an interesting stroke effect.

This effect works well for creating vintage-styled headlines.

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  • index.html
  • style.css
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Decorative Retro Shadow</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> </head> <body> <h1>The Lens and I</h1> <span>☺</span> </body> </html>
CSS
body { background: url("lens.jpg") no-repeat 50% 0; color: #444444; font-family: "Arial", sans-serif; } h1 { margin: 50px; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: normal; font-size: 55px; } span { position: absolute; top: 150px; left: 50px; font-size: 100px; }

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    1. Give the heading h1 a shadow with a horizontal and vertical offset of 4px without feathering and the color rgba (0, 0, 0, 0.2),
    2. and then assign another shadow with a horizontal and vertical offset of 2px, without feathering, and the color #e5d4c0<1>.

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