Smoke Dissolve Text
Letters drift up and curl away as soft smoke one after another, then condense back out of the haze into sharp type. Each letter animates blur, skew and a rising curl on a staggered delay.
Also known as: smoke animation css, smoke text effect css, text vanish into smoke, disappearing text smoke.
Vanishing
HTML
<div class="txt-smoke-dissolve-text"><span style="--i: 0">V</span><span style="--i: 1">a</span><span style="--i: 2">n</span><span style="--i: 3">i</span><span style="--i: 4">s</span><span style="--i: 5">h</span><span style="--i: 6">i</span><span style="--i: 7">n</span><span style="--i: 8">g</span></div>
CSS
.txt-smoke-dissolve-text {
--c: var(--txt-color, #3b82f6);
font-size: calc(var(--txt-size, 32px) * 1.6);
font-family: system-ui, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
line-height: 1.2;
white-space: nowrap;
letter-spacing: 0.01em;
color: color-mix(in srgb, var(--c) 30%, currentColor);}
.txt-smoke-dissolve-text span {
display: inline-block;
animation: txt-smoke-dissolve-text-drift 6s cubic-bezier(0.45, 0.05, 0.35, 1) calc(var(--i) * 0.08s) infinite;
}
@keyframes txt-smoke-dissolve-text-drift {
0%, 54%, 86%, 100% { opacity: 1; filter: blur(0); transform: none; }
68% {
opacity: 0;
filter: blur(0.16em);
transform: translate(0.3em, -0.7em) rotate(calc((var(--i) - 4) * 4deg)) skewX(-16deg) scale(1.4);
}
68.1%, 72% { opacity: 0; filter: blur(0.18em); transform: translate(-0.15em, 0.2em) scale(1.25); }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.txt-smoke-dissolve-text span { animation: none; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.txt-smoke-dissolve-text, .txt-smoke-dissolve-text *, .txt-smoke-dissolve-text::before, .txt-smoke-dissolve-text::after, .txt-smoke-dissolve-text *::before, .txt-smoke-dissolve-text *::after {
animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
}
}Customizing this snippet
- Color: set
--txt-coloron the element or a parent. Currently previewing#3b82f6. - Font size: set
--txt-size. Every other dimension is inem, so the whole thing scales together. Currently previewing40px. - Speed: change the duration on the
transitionoranimationshorthand. Staggered delays are relative, so they keep their rhythm. - Reduced motion: the rule at the end of the CSS turns the motion off for people who asked their OS for less of it. Keep it.