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title: "Animating text as Handrawn with CSS - Mostly nerdless"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/animating-text-as-handrawn-with-css---mostly-nerdless-lfsyxfnjh
source_url: https://mostlynerdless.de/blog/2026/07/17/animating-text-as-handrawn-with-css
type: article
source: "Mostly Nerdless"
published: 2026-07-17T05:45:24.974Z
updated: 2026-07-17T18:17:30.684Z
tags: ["css", "svg", "web-animation"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 21
comments: 1
language: en
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# Animating text as Handrawn with CSS - Mostly nerdless

**[Mostly Nerdless](https://daily.dev/sources/mostly-nerdless)** · 2 min read · 21 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

A walkthrough of creating a hand-drawn text reveal animation using CSS clip-path and SVG paths. Starting from a simple wipe animation using animated clip-path inset values, the technique evolves to use a hand-drawn SVG path (created in Inkscape) as the clip-path for text, producing a realistic pen-drawing effect. Tips include splitting animation for capital vs lowercase letters and converting text to paths for finer control.

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