CSS Text Shadow Generator

The CSS Text Shadow Generator is a visual editor for the CSS text-shadow property. You adjust the horizontal offset, vertical offset, blur radius, color, and opacity with sliders and watch the effect render live on sample text, then copy the exact CSS. Instead of guessing pixel values and refreshing your page, you shape the shadow directly and read the code it produces.

Whether you search for a CSS text-shadow generator, a text shadow generator CSS tool or a CSS shadow text generator, the output is the same single declaration. Click the Hard preset and the Generated CSS box shows text-shadow: 2px 2px 0px #00000099; which is one black layer at 60% opacity, with the opacity written into the last two hex digits. Click Neon Glow and you get three comma-separated layers at 7px, 14px and 28px blur. Copy CSS copies the whole line, semicolon included.

The text-shadow property is simpler than box-shadow - it has no spread radius and no inset keyword - but layering is where it gets powerful. A single declaration can stack several shadows, each with its own offsets, blur, and color. Stacking layers is how you build neon glows, hard outlines, retro 3D lettering, letterpress emboss effects, and long flat shadows. Writing those by hand is fiddly, so this tool manages the layers and outputs a spec-valid, comma-separated declaration in the correct paint order.

Everything happens in your browser. Pick a preset like Neon Glow or Outline, tune each layer, switch the preview between light and dark backgrounds, edit the sample text, and copy the CSS. No account, no uploads, and it keeps working offline once the page has loaded.

Layer order runs first to last, front to back, so the shadow listed first sits on top. That is what makes outlines work: four small shadows offset one pixel in each direction, stacked, approximate a stroke that CSS has no direct property for. Blur radius is the expensive part to render, and text with several large blurs repainted on scroll is a common cause of jank on lower-powered devices. Shadows never affect layout, so they can overflow their box and be clipped by a parent with overflow hidden.