# Text Gradient

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/118257>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/118257 "2004-08-04T02:04:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jedinitex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/34f0e0/32.png) [@jedinitex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jedinitex)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/118257/1 "2004-08-04T02:04:58Z")

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Is there a way to have the entire text block fade from black (left) to white (right)? not as an animation, but just as a still text block.

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**Author:** ![ruski\_flasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e8cbc/32.png) [@ruski\_flasher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ruski_flasher)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/118257/2 "2004-08-04T02:35:48Z")

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use a mask

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**Author:** ![pom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pom)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/118257/3 "2004-08-04T13:33:21Z")

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Just to make things clear, you’ll have to use the text as a mask over gradient-colored background 🙂