Learn Html Canvas Advanced Text Effects

Learn Html Canvas Advanced Text Effects

What you'll learn

Description

Take animated text to the next level
From drawing a single letter to multiline animated particle text. In this HTML canvas crash course we will go from basics to advanced in a single class. We will cover everything you need to know about using fonts and drawing text on HTML canvas. Let's explore what's possible in modern front-end web development and turn text into complex animated particle systems.
Practice vanilla JavaScript with no frameworks and no libraries
Learn how to write creative coding prototypes and experiments in a simple procedural (line by line) codebase. Convert those experiments into a more modular object oriented JavaScript syntax.
Experiment with code
Learn  how to create the base version of the effect with me step by step. Apply constellations algorithm for a completely different visual effect. Learn how to use canvas gradients, custom web fonts and how to change particle shapes and physics to get different visuals and movement.
This technique will also work with company LOGOS, even if the logo is a combination of text, symbols and images.
Source code included
With the final lesson you can download the complete source code, as well as some of my experimental variations of the codebase.
From basics to advanced
Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript is required to get the most from this class. The first part of the course will be very beginner friendly, we will learn how to set up an HTML canvas, how to draw text using fillText and strokeText built-in methods and we will cover all available tools and techniques to style it.
The second part will cover more advanced algorithms. We will learn how to draw multiline centered text on HTML canvas, how to turn it into particles, how to make those particle systems interactive and much more.

Overview

Lesson 1:Introduction
Lesson 2:Project setup
Lesson 3:CSS & JavaScript positioning tricks
Lesson 4:Drawing, styling and positioning text
Lesson 5:Wrapping and centering multiline text
Lesson 6:How to center a block of text vertically
Lesson 7:HTML canvas gradients
Lesson 8:Refactoring into Object Oriented JavaScript
Lesson 9:Scanning canvas for pixel data
Lesson 10:Converting text into particles
Lesson 11:Interactions and physics
Lesson 12:Custom fonts
Lesson 13:Resizing and responsive design
Lesson 14:Particle constellations effect
Lesson 15:Dynamic opacity formula