# Text Gradient

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/59809>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/59809 "2004-08-04T02:04:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**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/59809/1 "2004-08-04T02:04:58Z")

</div>

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.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/59809/2 "2004-08-04T02:35:48Z")

</div>

use a mask

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-gradient/59809/3 "2004-08-04T13:33:21Z")

</div>

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