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Show HN: ztext.js – JavaScript library that makes any font 3D

257 pointsby bennettfeelyover 4 years ago

21 comments

tomcamover 4 years ago
Thank you. I don&#x27;t need it but I donated because I think it&#x27;s very well presented. Love the idea of a single, focused, tightly documented lib that does its one thing well and avoids scope creep.<p>I appreciated your putting the suggested tip amount right up front. Are you finding that to be as effective as you hoped? Have you tried other more&#x2F;less in-you-face techniques?
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Budabelllyover 4 years ago
Super cool. I really appreciate gadgets like this to add a little flare to existing elements on the page.<p>This would be really awesome to combine with animography somehow: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;airnan&#x2F;details&#x2F;JbOrbV" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;airnan&#x2F;details&#x2F;JbOrbV</a>
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enhdlessover 4 years ago
Cool! A while ago I was experimenting with something like this but using CSS text-shadow instead: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;enhdless&#x2F;pen&#x2F;NYMpEw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codepen.io&#x2F;enhdless&#x2F;pen&#x2F;NYMpEw</a>
godotover 4 years ago
In the 90s I bought a copy of a small software called 3D Font Creator (Fun fact - I was able to find it on Amazon [1] now...) , that did something like this. I used it to create cool little logos for my personal homepage and such. Just a bit amusing how far we&#x27;ve come in web technologies that this is all JS and CSS now.<p>1: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;3D-Font-Creator-by-Expert&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B000E48J28" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;3D-Font-Creator-by-Expert&#x2F;dp&#x2F;B000E48J...</a>
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emaroover 4 years ago
Nice! 3D is not exactly my taste, but I like this. It&#x27;s all text, you can still select it. That was a good surprise for me, since it&#x27;s not very common when you see any advanced visual effect on text in the web.
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mmastracover 4 years ago
That&#x27;s a clever and beautiful &quot;hack&quot; (in the positive sense of the word). I could see this being useful for adding to the CSS spec (text shaders, perhaps?)
djbeadleover 4 years ago
This is pretty fun! I appreciate that accessibility was addressed as well (although I&#x27;m unqualified to assess how well it works in practice).
rajangdavisover 4 years ago
This is very cool! Would be a lot of fun to combine this with an animation library and do lyric videos for songs but with pure js...
preya2kover 4 years ago
Looks very nice! You mind me asking why you’re not creating a separate GitHub-Repository for this (or your other projects)?<p>I use GitHub stars as a kind of bookmark for interesting libraries that I’d love to try out at some time in the future, so I’d love to give yours a star, but it’s not a standalone repo :(
somishereover 4 years ago
Love it. Going to try it out in a subtle place on our site soon. Will send a link if it hits production :)
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breakfastduckover 4 years ago
Very simple, looks great.<p>The kind of thing that instantly feels like it should be part of standard CSS.
abraaeover 4 years ago
Having spent some time wrangling colors recently, I&#x27;d love to know how you came up with the palette used for the letters in the top title. Any clues welcomed!
slmjkdbtlover 4 years ago
Very nice presentation, saw the title thought it&#x27;s a WebGL lib with text vectorization and extrusion though.. Glad it&#x27;s achievable by this method
bitwizeover 4 years ago
Reminds me of YTMND. The good old days...
shadeslayer_over 4 years ago
This is a brilliant library, Bennett. Very fluent documentation too. Congratulations on the release!
shanehobanover 4 years ago
One of the coolest little (well probably big) projects I&#x27;ve seen in ages! Great job!
Waterluvianover 4 years ago
How popular is “download this minified file and use it!” Vs. Package management?<p>I feel like that’s an instant turn off. I don’t want to manually manage all my stuff.<p>Or is there some middle ground where people just put a URL to the download in their package manager solution, whatever it is.
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pgtover 4 years ago
Long live Word Art!
pkphilipover 4 years ago
Very cool project!
shannifinover 4 years ago
Very nice!
Joyfieldover 4 years ago
kb != kB.