text-shadow: 0px 0px 7px #4466eeff, 0px 0px 14px #4466eee6, 0px 0px 28px #4466eeb3;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.
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.
Pick a preset like Soft, Neon Glow, Retro 3D, or Outline to get a realistic starting point, or begin with a single default shadow layer and build up from there.
Drag the horizontal and vertical offset and blur radius sliders, then set the shadow color and opacity. Watch the sample text update instantly as you edit.
Add extra layers to create glow, outline, or 3D depth — several offset copies of a shadow read as extruded text, while stacked blurred copies read as a glow.
Copy the text-shadow declaration and paste it straight into your stylesheet or component styles. Apply it to any text element to get the same effect.
Stack any number of shadow layers into one declaration, in the correct top-to-bottom paint order, which is how neon glows, outlines, and 3D text are built
Sliders for horizontal and vertical offset and blur radius, plus a color picker and an opacity control, cover every part of the text-shadow grammar
Sample text updates instantly as you edit, and you can switch its background between light and dark to check how the effect reads in both themes
Curated recipes for soft, hard, neon glow, retro 3D, outline, emboss, fire, and long-shadow effects give you a proven starting point instead of a blank canvas
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