Most glowing text on the web is a drop shadow behind a font.

I wanted to see what happens if the type itself does the glowing. So every character in this field reads its distance from your cursor and interpolates three things at once: font weight, scale, and a color ramp.

The result reads like a light source you're holding over the page

Try it out: https://contra.com/products/4l8xNuVW-proximity-text

Most glowing text on the web is a drop shadow behind a font.

I wanted to see what happens if the type itself does the glowing. So every character in this field reads its distance from your cursor and interpolates three things at once: font weight, scale, and a color ramp.

The result reads like a light source you're holding over the page

Try it out: https://contra.com/products/4l8xNuVW-proximity-text