# Pixel Sorting Drip: motion graphics style

> A pixel-sorting text effect: pixels under each letter are sorted by brightness, so the word drips long gradient streaks over a sunset, then pulls them back. A hallmark of glitch art for album covers, posters and music visuals.

- Category: [Analog Video & Glitch](https://aimotions.art/category/analog-video-glitch/)
- Also known as: pixel sort effect, pixel sorting glitch, glitch art, sorted pixels, melting text glitch, databending, streak glitch
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Lively · Background: Dark bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/pixel-sorting/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/pixel-sorting/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Apply a pixel-sorting glitch to [TEXT]. Set [TEXT] in a heavy wide geometric sans, pure white, over a banded sunset gradient that runs from deep indigo through magenta and coral to gold, with a soft glowing sun. In every pixel column, take the run of pixels that starts at the bottom edge of each letter and continues downward, and sort it by brightness, brightest first, so each letter melts into straight vertical streaks that fade from white into the background colors. Sort bright background patches the opposite way into shorter bars. Animate the drips growing down column by column at slightly different speeds, hold, then retract them back into crisp letters. Keep the letters themselves readable. Loop every 8 seconds.
```

## Visual DNA

- Vertical streaks of sorted pixels hanging from the bottom of each letter
- Smooth brightness gradients inside every streak, white fading into color
- Bright background areas sorted the opposite way into shorter bars
- Column-by-column timing so the drips grow at different speeds
- Purple, magenta, orange and gold sunset gradient behind white type

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Pixel Sorting Drip, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/pixel-sorting/