Frost Grow crystallises your word one letter at a time. Frost creeps across each glyph in turn, icicles form and hang from the lower edges, and the whole thing keeps a faint drip afterwards.
What Frost Grow is good for
Winter and Christmas campaigns
Frozen food and cold-chain product branding
Fantasy and ice-themed titles
How this animation is built
fg-grow spreads the crystal across each letter on a stagger, with feTurbulence and feDisplacementMap giving the frost edge its irregular crystalline break-up rather than a smooth wipe. fg-drip runs the icicles on a slow separate cycle so they keep moving after the growth finishes.
Tips for Frost Grow
The letter-by-letter growth is the effect — short-to-medium words let you see each one happen.
Cool whites and pale blues; warm colours fight the concept immediately.
Frost Grow questions
How is this different from Ice Sculpture?
Frost Grow is surface frost spreading across letters with icicles — a process. Ice Sculpture is a finished solid object carved from clear ice with real computed lighting on its surfaces.
Related animation styles
Flaming Text — Flames lick upward from letters standing in white-hot fire
Burning Text — Charred letters engulfed in a roaring inferno of tall flames
Blue Fire — Ghostly blue flames rising off cool glowing letters
Smoke Wisp — Pale ghost letters that waver and drift apart like smoke
Molten Rune — Stone-carved letters flooding with molten gold as embers rise
Abyss Caustics — Underwater light ripples over pale type as bubbles rise