{"id":439,"date":"2015-07-27T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traverstodd.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-07-27T21:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:15:33","slug":"css3-rgba-long-shadow-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traverstodd.com\/css3-rgba-long-shadow-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS3 RGBA Long Shadow generator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long shadows are a thing these days. Yes, you &#8220;They&#8217;re so lame&#8221; pedantic hipster designer, they are.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Google&#8217;s Material Design and its iconography has meant long shadow design has made its way into many people&#8217;s eyes even without them knowing it.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I found a need to try and experiment with long shadows for a digital design concept. But all the &#8220;long shadow generators&#8221; out there made you pick a solid background color, over which the shadow would essentially &#8220;fade&#8221; to that background color. Not cool!<\/p>\n<p>What if you want your super cool long shadow to appear on a gradient? Or some texture? Yeah, exactly &#8211; it fails.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my <strong>CSS3 RGBA Long Shadow Generator 5000<\/strong> (yeah, rolls off the tongue&#8230;but it&#8217;s patent-pending, so don&#8217;t even try to steal that).<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CSS3 RGBA Long Shadow Generator\" src=\"https:\/\/traverstodd.com\/lab\/long-shadow-generator.html\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1000\" seamless=\"seamless\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long shadows are a thing these days. Yes, you &#8220;They&#8217;re so lame&#8221; pedantic hipster designer, they are. 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