-webkit-background-clip:text CSS effect

-webkit-background-clip:text CSS effect .markdown

-webkit-background-clip:text CSS effect

Use -webkit-background-clip: text and -webkit-fill-text-color : transparent to apply a background to a text on webkit browser.

Set a color fallback for other browser.

Base on this article from Divya Manian : http://nimbupani.com/using-background-clip-for-text-with-css-fallback.html

A Pen by Jintos on CodePen.

License.

index.html

<div class="wrapper">
      <p class="title">Play with background-clip text</p>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_one">JINTOS</div>
  <div class="clip-text clip-text_fifteen clip-text--no-textzone">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_twelve clip-text--cover">JINTOS</div>
  <div class="clip-text clip-text_tree clip-text--no-textzone">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_two">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_fourteen clip-text--cover">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_tree">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_eleven clip-text--cover">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_four">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_five">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_six">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_seven">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_eight">JINTOS</div>
      
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_nine">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_ten">JINTOS</div>
      <div class="clip-text clip-text_thirteen clip-text--cover">JINTOS</div>
  </div>

scripts

<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>

style.scss

/* 
  Based from this article from Divya Manian - 
  http://nimbupani.com/using-background-clip-for-text-with-css-fallback.html
*/
@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald:400,700);

* {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

*,
:before,
:after {
    -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
       -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
            box-sizing: border-box;
}

html,
body {
    min-height: 100%;
}

body {
    font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
    color: #fff;
    background-color: #000;
}

.wrapper {
    text-align: center;
}

.title {
    font-size: 2em;
    position: relative;
    margin: 0 auto 1em;
    padding: 1em 1em .25em 1em;
    text-align: center;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}
.title:after {
    position: absolute;
    top: 100%;
    left: 50%;
    width: 240px;
    height: 4px;
    margin-left: -120px;
    content: '';
    background-color: #fff;
}

/* Clip text element */
.clip-text {
    font-size: 6em;
    font-weight: bold;
    line-height: 1;
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
    margin: .25em;
    padding: .5em .75em;
    text-align: center;
    /* Color fallback */
    color: #fff;
    -webkit-background-clip: text;

    -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
}

.clip-text:before,
.clip-text:after {
    position: absolute;
    content: '';
}

/* Background */
.clip-text:before {
    z-index: -2;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    background-image: inherit;
}

/* Text Background (black zone) */
.clip-text:after {
    position: absolute;
    z-index: -1;
    top: .125em;
    right: .125em;
    bottom: .125em;
    left: .125em;
    background-color: #000;
}

/* Change the background position to display letter when the black zone isn't here */
.clip-text--no-textzone:before {
    background-position: -.65em 0;
}

.clip-text--no-textzone:after {
    content: none;
}

/* Use Background-size cover for photo background and no-repeat background */
.clip-text--cover,
.clip-text--cover:before {
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
            background-size: cover;
}

/* Background image from http://thepatternlibrary.com/ and http://lorempixel.com */
.clip-text_one {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/7);
}

.clip-text_two {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract);
}

.clip-text_tree {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/2);
}

.clip-text_four {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/4);
}

.clip-text_five {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/5);
}

.clip-text_six {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/9);
}

.clip-text_seven {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/abstract/8);
}

.clip-text_eight {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/410/200/people);
}

.clip-text_nine {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/nightlife);
}

.clip-text_ten {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/nightlife/8);
}

.clip-text_eleven {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/fashion/10/cc);
    background-size: cover;
}

.clip-text_twelve {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/people/7/cc);
}

.clip-text_thirteen {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/food/5/cc);
}

.clip-text_fourteen {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/city/9/cc);
}

.clip-text_fifteen {
    background-image: url(http://lorempixel.com/480/200/nightlife/5);
}