Creating Toon Text Titles with CSS and SVG Animation Techniques
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Summary
This article by web designer Andy Clarke demonstrates techniques for creating animated Toon Text titles using modern CSS and SVG. The tutorial builds on the author's series about how classic cartoons inspire modern CSS animations, focusing specifically on recreating the typography and title card styles from 1920s-1930s silent films. The content provides practical guidance for web designers looking to implement vintage cartoon-style text animations in their projects.
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After finishing a project that required me to learn everything I could about CSS and SVG animations, I started writing this series about Smashing Animations and 'How Classic Cartoons Inspire Modern CSS.'
To round off this year, I want to show you how to use modern CSS to create that element that makes Toon Titles so impactful: their typography.
In the silent era of the 1920s and early '30s, the typography of a film's title card created a
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