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Animated Greyscale to Color Image Reveal Effect

Ana Tudor recently shared a trick on how to make an image partially greyscale:

#tinyCSStip Would you like to apply `filter: grayscale(1)`, but only partly, not everywhere? You can emulate that with blend modes.

background: url(cat) 50%/ cover,
linear-gradient(-45deg, transparent 50%, grey 0);
background-blend-mode: luminosity

Many variations possible.

— Ana Tudor 🐯 (@anatudor) January 20, 2021

Here’s her code in a CodePen demo for you to play with:

See the Pen CSS Partial Greyscale by Bramus (@bramus) on CodePen.

☝️ Tip: Tweak the angle and the percentage of transparent to see how it behaves.

Inspired by a CodePen demo by Jhey — in which he built image reveal on hover using filter and clip-path — Ana rebuilt his demo using her technique:

See the Pen No image duplication reveal effect with Houdini magic 🎩🐇✨ (Chromium only) by Ana Tudor (@thebabydino) on CodePen.

One advantage of Ana’s technique is that it doesn’t require duplicated images in the markup. A disadvantage though is that it only works with background images. Chrome only too, as it relies on @property.

I like this form of code golfing 🙂

UPDATE 2021-02-02: Ana also made a non-Houdini version that uses box-shadow on a wrapping element. Because of that you can simply leave your img tags intact, so all cons of her first iteration have been nullified. Cool!

Minimal Underline Animation

Nice pen by Aaron Iker:

It combines CSS Custom Properties, CSS Transitions, and SVG Animations using stroke-dashoffset/stroke-dasharray.

The reason that it works with text that spans multiple lines is because of the (inline) span that’s being used inside the link.

Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG

Using the feTurbulence and feDisplacementMap filters, Scott Turner make his SVG line-drawings look like they’re pencil-on-paper-like drawings:

See the Pen SVG Pencil Filter #1 by Scott Turner (@srt19170) on CodePen.

Creating a Pencil Effect in SVG →

💡 If you constantly randomize the turbulence you can create squiggles using SVG or even recreate a heat shimmer effect with SVG

Multi-line Highlights in CSS

The key CSS property you’re looking for is display: inline;, as set on the p elements, along with some box-decoration-break clone; where needed 😉

Crafting a Cutout Collage Layout with CSS Grid and `clip-path`

On Codrops there’s a tutorial on how to create a Cutout Collage Layout using CSS Grid and Clip Path. The result looks quite nice I must say:

What I’m not too excited about in this implementation is the fact that it requires you to manually cut up the image into parts beforehand, even though clip-path is used later on. I’ve quickly made a pen that uses the one single image, yielding a similar cutout effect.

See the Pen Magazine Cutout by Bramus (@bramus) on CodePen.

I’ve only cut out a few parts, but you get the idea. The parallax part as seen in the original is left as an exercise to you, dear reader 😛

🚧 A big help in creating these cutouts was the Shape Path Editor which you can find in Firefox’ DevTools. Without it such a task would have been really difficult.

Chameleonic Header

UPDATE 2021.01.14: Besides using clip-path, a more easy approach is to use mix-blend-mode: difference; if all you’re doing is inverting colors.

Ever had a fixed header that had to work with both light and dark content shown underneath it? Keep an eye at the header in the video below to see what I’m talking about:

As explained over at CodyHouse, here’s how it’s done:

This effect uses the clip-path CSS property. The idea is to have a clone of the main header inside each <section> of the page. Each clone will inherit the style of the section it belongs to.

All cloned headers are placed at the top of the page (with a fixed position). The clip-path property can then be used to define, as clipping region for each header, the section element it belongs to. This way, each header is visible only when on top of its parent section.

This creates the clipping transition effect between headers with different color themes.

Chameleonic Header Article →
Chameleonic Header Demo →

A JavaScript Typing Carousel

I like this JS typewriter effect:

The HTML that goes along with that is really simple:

<h1>This pen is
  <span
     class="txt-rotate"
     data-period="2000"
     data-rotate='[ "nerdy.", "simple.", "pure JS.", "pretty.", "fun!" ]'></span>
</h1>

Simple Typing Carousel →

BADASS

Nice scroll effect on the BADASS Films website:

The effect is achieved by placing a duplicate (but clipped) list on top of another one, in combination with scroll velocity calculation to define the slant of the list.

BADASS →

Fading text with CSS Blend Modes

Clever usage a gradient background and mix-blend-mode. On hover the size of the background is changed, revealing the rest of the text contents:

New to Compositing And Blending In CSS? Look no further.

CSS-Only Direction Aware Hover

In the past I’ve seen some demos like this one that use JavaScript/math to calculate the hover direction upon mouseenter. Detecting the direction is also possible sans JavaScript, by adding triangular hitareas to a box/link in combination with the CSS General Sibling Selector (viz. ~) to rotate the content.

Internally it looks like this:

Note that the hitareas are made triangular using CSS Clipping, and not using the for this typically used CSS border-fiddling.

Here’s a Pen of the final markup for you to play with:

See the Pen CSS-Only Direction-Aware Cube Links by Gabrielle Wee (@gabriellewee) on CodePen.

Neat! In the process of getting to the end result, a pure CSS version of the Tilt Hover Effect is also demonstrated 🙂

How to Create Direction-Aware CSS-Only Hover Effects →

Sidenote/Related: The General Sibling Selector – just like any other Combinator such as the Adjacent Sibling Selector (+) for that matter – is a CSS Selector that’s very powerful and should be used more often. Here’s why: