Metallic Shine holds your word in brushed metal and passes a single hard glare across it, once, the way a light source moves over a machined surface. Restrained where Gold Foil is decorative.
What Metallic Shine is good for
Automotive, engineering and industrial branding
Sports titles and team graphics
Corporate reveals that need weight without ornament
How this animation is built
The glare is a masked gradient band travelling across the glyphs on ss-sweep — masked to the letterforms, so the light only exists where the metal is rather than crossing the whole frame as a rectangle.
Tips for Metallic Shine
One sweep is the point. Looping it turns a premium cue into a cheap one.
Heavy weights hold the brushed texture; light weights leave nothing for the glare to travel across.
Metallic Shine questions
How is this different from Gold Foil?
Gold Foil is warm, decorative and continuously shimmering. Metallic Shine is cool, industrial, and does exactly one thing once.
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