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A Pen by Riley Shaw.
- for i in 1..8 do
div
p tomato

Stripey text

A very hack way of putting stripes on your text. Make sure to update the stripe # in both the markup (1..8) and the styles ($steps).

A Pen by Riley Shaw on CodePen.

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@import "compass"
$size: 300px
$stripes: 8
$stripe-height: $size / $stripes
$color: #00ffff
body
margin: 0
background: $color / $stripes * (ceil($stripes / 2) + 1)
div
height: $stripe-height
overflow: hidden
p
text-align: center
font-size: $size
line-height: 1em
font-weight: bold
@for $n from 1 through $stripes
div:nth-child(#{$n})
p
margin-top: -$stripe-height * ($n - 1)
color: $color / $stripes * $n
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