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title: "Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/revealing-text-with-css-letter-spacing-axurb0srb
source_url: https://css-tricks.com/revealing-text-with-css-letter-spacing
type: article
source: "CSS-Tricks"
published: 2026-05-27T12:38:46.526Z
updated: 2026-05-27T12:41:05.771Z
tags: ["css"]
reading_time: 5
upvotes: 31
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing

**[CSS-Tricks](https://daily.dev/sources/css_tricks)** · 5 min read · 31 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

CSS letter-spacing can be used creatively to build text reveal animations without JavaScript. By setting a large negative letter-spacing value, characters overlap and become visually hidden; animating back to zero or positive values reveals the text. Combined with color transitions, overflow: clip, text-indent, ::first-letter, and ::first-line pseudo-elements, you can build interactive effects like checkbox-triggered text swaps and acronym expansions on hover. Code examples are provided for each technique.

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