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Difference Stripe Text
Filters & Blend Modes

Difference Stripe Text

Heading set in difference blend over a drifting stripe field, so each letter inverts whatever band it happens to cross.

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lines of CSS
49lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
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difference-stripe-text-15579.css
.fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 {
  position: relative;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  width: 210px;
  height: 110px;
  border-radius: 0.6rem;
  overflow: hidden;
  isolation: isolate;
  background: repeating-linear-gradient(
    -55deg,
    #f8fafc 0 16px,
    #0f172a 16px 32px
  );
}
.fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 i {
  position: absolute;
  inset: -30%;
  background: repeating-linear-gradient(-55deg, #38bdf8 0 16px, transparent 16px 32px);
  opacity: 0.4;
  animation: fx-v13-fb-difference-15578-slide 6s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 b {
  position: relative;
  font-size: 1.7rem;
  font-weight: 900;
  letter-spacing: 0.08em;
  color: #fff;
  mix-blend-mode: difference;
}
@keyframes fx-v13-fb-difference-15578-slide {
  from { transform: translateX(0); }
  to   { transform: translateX(32px); }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578,
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578::before,
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578::after,
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 *,
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 *::before,
  .fx-v13-fb-difference-15578 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
difference-stripe-text-15579.html
<div class="fx-v13-fb-difference-15578">
  <i></i>
  <b>INVERT</b>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put difference-stripe-text-15579.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-v13-fb-difference-15578">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
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What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

npx hoverlab add difference-stripe-text-15579

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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Guarded

Ships a prefers-reduced-motion block, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion.

What it animates
Compositor only

Only transform, opacity or filter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
No flashing found

No repeating change in opacity, colour or brightness large enough to count as a flash.

Layout shift (CLS)
No shift expected

Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Difference Stripe Text

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.