# Refractive Glass Letters: motion graphics style

> Thick clear glass letters bend a bright striped backdrop through their rounded edges, splitting it into rainbow fringes and caustic light. A crisp, premium material text effect for tech launches, product reveals and website hero titles.

- Category: [Materials & 3D](https://aimotions.art/category/materials-3d/)
- Also known as: glass text, refraction effect, clear acrylic letters, chromatic dispersion, prism text, transparent 3d type, glass refraction text
- Demo built with: WebGL · Energy: Calm · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/refractive-glass/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/refractive-glass/

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

```text
Render the word [TEXT] as thick, perfectly clear glass letters in a heavy condensed grotesque, all caps, with softly rounded edges. Behind them, bold diagonal stripes in tangerine, hot pink, violet and sky blue drift slowly over a soft gradient. Through the glass the stripes are magnified and bent along every curve, and the edges split them into thin red, green and blue rainbow fringes. Add white fresnel reflections on the rims, sharp specular glints, and a light-through shadow offset down-right on the backdrop with bright focused caustic lines. Start with the glass forming from nothing as the bending grows, hold while a gentle ripple runs across the letters, then let it dissolve back into the stripes and loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Rounded slab glass that warps the stripes behind it like a lens
- Chromatic dispersion: red, green and blue bent by different amounts at the edges
- Bright caustic rims and an offset light-through shadow on the backdrop
- Fresnel edge reflections and crisp white specular glints
- Slow drifting candy stripes; a ripple runs through the glass mid-loop

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: Refractive Glass Letters, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/refractive-glass/