Animated Text Effects Around the Web

With the latest design trends of slanted shapes and headers dominating the web, it’s safe to say that there are huge libraries and templates to choose from when it comes to the look and feel of a website. But what about the message? The functionality of headline animations can be combined with these trends to make a strong yet impressive statement.

That being said, we have combined a list of the best, most beautiful, and powerful text animations that will give your website a modern feel as well as sending across a strong message. These examples can be used as inspiration for your next design project or as a tutorial to upgrade your CSS3 and JavaScript skills.

Most of the items below have been tested on various browsers and are safe to use on your site while others are experimental and created simply to be a fun exercise.

Here’s one for the coder. Codrops is a blog that provide readers with tutorials, trends and inspiration for the web. In March 2016 they published an article on how to animate SVG letters with a plugin using Segment.

Remember when we were talking about the experimental animations? This tutorial definitely falls under that category. The article guides you through animation demos, usage, including other JavaScript libraries and how to customise the typeface.

Codrops also has a whole stack of other typographic examples for the web that will make your jaw drop.

Ever heard of CodeCanyon? It’s Envato’s own website library for plugins and code scripts created by a community of developers with over 21.000 items to choose from. One of them is textChaos which is a text animation plugin that allows you to add unique and abstract CSS3 text animations to your page.

If you’re a newbie at coding, this fully responsive text animation (which is also from CodeCanyon) will suit you. It allows you to choose HTML or Javascript to animate with and has a library of 300 pre-coded examples that you can grab inspiration or code from.

The animation files can then be imported into WordPress (check out their WordPress guide), comes with mouse events support and is SEO friendly.

Some of the functions available are:

Anime.js is a impressive, fast and lightweight JavaScript framework developed by Julian Garnier that animates anything from CSS properties to Javascript objects and HTML elements. It can also be used for SVG and letter animations which is still a very rare but sought after functionality for animation frameworks today. We see a lot of modern websites using SVG objects and even though the demand for animation support in this area is very high, there are not a lot of frameworks that can answer that demand. Anime.js fills that gap beautifully.

CodyHouse is a free library, providing developers with front-end resources in HTML, CSS and Javascript. In 2014, their co-founder developed a series of CSS effects for headlines with rotating words via sliding, pushing, typing and scaling. This is great if you want to send a strong message by keeping the original headline structure while changing the last word, just like in the example above.