Rift Glow eases your word out of a dark red rift, bleeding light from behind a heavy serif while dust drifts through the beam and the sign flickers on a failing circuit.
The bleed is three offset copies of every glyph — deep red below, red and orange to either side — under one crisp face. That is a glow made of ordinary paint, where a blur filter would be a full-canvas convolution redone whenever the subtree changes. Letters arrive individually on rg-emerge, the whole sign flickers on rg-flicker, and the rift behind is a breathing radial gradient.
No, deliberately. It bottoms out at 62% opacity and never reaches zero, because a still frame or PNG export caught during a full blackout would look like a broken render.