Flickering Light Text Effect

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Flickering Light Text Effect

Flickering light text effect, single element with one flickering letter. Kind of the reverse neon sign! :D

Just playing around with different css properties to create fun text effects

Check out some other cool text effects: http://codepen.io/collection/DamKJW/

A Pen by Mandy Michael on CodePen.

License.

index.html

<h1 data-heading="i">Flicker</h1>

style.scss

$h1:  rgba(45,45,45,1);
$blue: #98b5cc;
$yellow: #ffcc00;
$outline: rgba(#fff, .4);
$shadow: rgba($yellow, .5);
html,
body {
	background: linear-gradient(45deg, rgba(45,45,45,1) 9%,rgba(0,0,0,1) 100%);
	width: 100%;
	height: 100%;
}

h1 {
	font-family: 'CoreCircus', sans-serif;
	font-size: 14vw;
	text-align: center;
	line-height: 1;
	margin: 0;
	top: 50%;
	left: 50%;
	transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
	position: absolute;
	color: $h1;
	letter-spacing: -.5rem;
	
	&:before {
		content: attr(data-heading);
		position: absolute;
		overflow: hidden;
		color: $yellow;
		width: 100%;
		z-index: 5;
		text-shadow: none;
		left: 27%;
		text-align: left;
		animation: flicker 3s linear infinite;
	}
}

@keyframes flicker {
	0%, 19.999%, 22%, 62.999%, 64%, 64.999%, 70%, 100% {
		opacity: .99;
		text-shadow: -1px -1px 0 $outline, 1px -1px 0 $outline, -1px 1px 0 $outline, 1px 1px 0 $outline, 0 -2px 8px, 0 0 2px, 0 0 5px #ff7e00, 0 0 15px #ff4444, 0 0 2px #ff7e00, 0 2px 3px #000;
	}
	20%, 21.999%, 63%, 63.999%, 65%, 69.999% {
		opacity: 0.4;
		text-shadow: none;
	}
}

/*
 * Webfont: CoreCircus by S-Core
 * URL: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/s-core/core-circus/regular/
 * Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013 by S-Core Co., Ltd.. All rights reserved.
 * Licensed pageviews: 10,000
*
 * Webfont: CoreCircus2DDot1 by S-Core
 * URL: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/s-core/core-circus/dot1/
 * Copyright: Copyright (c) 2013 by S-Core Co., Ltd.. All rights reserved.
 * Licensed pageviews: 10,000
*/

@font-face {
	font-family: 'CoreCircus2DDot1';
	src: url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_1_0.eot');
	src: url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_1_0.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_1_0.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_1_0.woff') format('woff'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_1_0.ttf') format('truetype');
}

@font-face {
	font-family: 'CoreCircus';
	src: url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_8_0.eot');
	src: url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_8_0.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_8_0.woff2') format('woff2'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_8_0.woff') format('woff'), url('https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/209981/333BF4_8_0.ttf') format('truetype');
}