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Neon Flashing "Order Now" Sign Text

An attention-grabbing storefront-style banner where the offer copy flashes like a live retail neon sign — built for checkout urgency, flash sales and 'Live Offer' bars. The exact 'active storefront' look conversion pages reach for.

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The code

<div class="cnt-02">
  <div class="cnt-02__plate">
    <p class="cnt-02__kicker">Kitchen closes at midnight</p>
    <h2 class="cnt-02__sign"><span class="cnt-02__word">ORDER</span> <span class="cnt-02__now">NOW</span></h2>
    <p class="cnt-02__sub">free delivery over $30 — tonight only</p>
  </div>
</div>
.cnt-02,
.cnt-02 *,
.cnt-02 *::before,
.cnt-02 *::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.cnt-02 ::selection {
  background: oklch(0.72 0.22 5);
  color: #fff;
}

.cnt-02 {
  --accent: oklch(0.72 0.24 8);
  --accent2: oklch(0.82 0.17 90);
  font-family: 'Segoe UI',system-ui,sans-serif;
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100vh;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  padding: 56px 20px;
  background: radial-gradient(130% 120% at 50% 15%,#161014,#0a0708 70%);
}

.cnt-02__plate {
  position: relative;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 44px 52px;
  border-radius: 16px;
  background: #0c0809;
  border: 1px solid #241519;
  box-shadow: 0 0 60px -10px color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent) 30%,transparent),0 40px 80px -40px #000;
}

.cnt-02__plate::before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  inset: 10px;
  border-radius: 10px;
  border: 2px dashed color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent) 45%,#3a2a2e);
  pointer-events: none;
}

.cnt-02__kicker {
  font: 12px ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;
  letter-spacing: .3em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent2) 60%,#6b5a3e);
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

.cnt-02__sign {
  font-size: clamp(46px,10vw,88px);
  font-weight: 800;
  line-height: .92;
  letter-spacing: .04em;
  color: #fff5f6;
  display: flex;
  gap: .22em;
  justify-content: center;
}

.cnt-02__word {
  color: var(--accent);
  animation: cnt-02-flash 2.6s steps(1,end) infinite;
  text-shadow: 0 0 6px #fff,0 0 14px var(--accent),0 0 30px var(--accent),0 0 60px var(--accent);
}

.cnt-02__now {
  color: var(--accent2);
  animation: cnt-02-blink 1.3s steps(1,end) infinite .2s;
  text-shadow: 0 0 6px #fff,0 0 14px var(--accent2),0 0 32px var(--accent2),0 0 62px var(--accent2);
}

.cnt-02__sub {
  margin-top: 18px;
  font-size: 14px;
  letter-spacing: .04em;
  color: #a98d92;
}

@keyframes cnt-02-flash {
  0%,
    88%,
    100% {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  90%,
    94% {
    opacity: .28;
  }

  92% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

@keyframes cnt-02-blink {
  0%,
    55%,
    100% {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  60%,
    70% {
    opacity: .22;
  }

  65% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .cnt-02__word,
    .cnt-02__now {
    animation: none;
  }
}
/* No JavaScript — two offset @keyframes create the live-storefront flicker. */
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Demo: Neon Flashing "Order Now" Sign Text
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An attention-grabbing storefront-style banner where the offer copy flashes like a live retail neon sign — built for checkout urgency, flash sales and 'Live Offer' bars. The exact 'active storefront' look conversion pages reach for.
## HTML
```html
<div class="cnt-02">
  <div class="cnt-02__plate">
    <p class="cnt-02__kicker">Kitchen closes at midnight</p>
    <h2 class="cnt-02__sign"><span class="cnt-02__word">ORDER</span> <span class="cnt-02__now">NOW</span></h2>
    <p class="cnt-02__sub">free delivery over $30 — tonight only</p>
  </div>
</div>
```
## CSS
```css
.cnt-02,
.cnt-02 *,
.cnt-02 *::before,
.cnt-02 *::after {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

.cnt-02 ::selection {
  background: oklch(0.72 0.22 5);
  color: #fff;
}

.cnt-02 {
  --accent: oklch(0.72 0.24 8);
  --accent2: oklch(0.82 0.17 90);
  font-family: 'Segoe UI',system-ui,sans-serif;
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100vh;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  padding: 56px 20px;
  background: radial-gradient(130% 120% at 50% 15%,#161014,#0a0708 70%);
}

.cnt-02__plate {
  position: relative;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 44px 52px;
  border-radius: 16px;
  background: #0c0809;
  border: 1px solid #241519;
  box-shadow: 0 0 60px -10px color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent) 30%,transparent),0 40px 80px -40px #000;
}

.cnt-02__plate::before {
  content: "";
  position: absolute;
  inset: 10px;
  border-radius: 10px;
  border: 2px dashed color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent) 45%,#3a2a2e);
  pointer-events: none;
}

.cnt-02__kicker {
  font: 12px ui-monospace,Menlo,monospace;
  letter-spacing: .3em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: color-mix(in oklch,var(--accent2) 60%,#6b5a3e);
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

.cnt-02__sign {
  font-size: clamp(46px,10vw,88px);
  font-weight: 800;
  line-height: .92;
  letter-spacing: .04em;
  color: #fff5f6;
  display: flex;
  gap: .22em;
  justify-content: center;
}

.cnt-02__word {
  color: var(--accent);
  animation: cnt-02-flash 2.6s steps(1,end) infinite;
  text-shadow: 0 0 6px #fff,0 0 14px var(--accent),0 0 30px var(--accent),0 0 60px var(--accent);
}

.cnt-02__now {
  color: var(--accent2);
  animation: cnt-02-blink 1.3s steps(1,end) infinite .2s;
  text-shadow: 0 0 6px #fff,0 0 14px var(--accent2),0 0 32px var(--accent2),0 0 62px var(--accent2);
}

.cnt-02__sub {
  margin-top: 18px;
  font-size: 14px;
  letter-spacing: .04em;
  color: #a98d92;
}

@keyframes cnt-02-flash {
  0%,
    88%,
    100% {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  90%,
    94% {
    opacity: .28;
  }

  92% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

@keyframes cnt-02-blink {
  0%,
    55%,
    100% {
    opacity: 1;
  }

  60%,
    70% {
    opacity: .22;
  }

  65% {
    opacity: 1;
  }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .cnt-02__word,
    .cnt-02__now {
    animation: none;
  }
}
```

## JavaScript
```js
/* No JavaScript — two offset @keyframes create the live-storefront flicker. */
```

How this works

Two @keyframes run in parallel: a slow, confident on/off flash on the main word and a faster, offbeat blink on the 'NOW' so the two words never pulse in sync — the trick that stops it looking like a mechanical CSS loop and starts looking like real wired tubes.

The glow is a stack of text-shadow layers on a hot pink accent; the surrounding plate uses a matching box-shadow halo so the whole panel reads as one lit fixture. A dashed 'bulb' border around the frame completes the fairground marquee feel.

Make it yours

  • Change urgency by editing the flash/blink timings — tighten to ~1s for a frantic clearance sale, loosen to ~4s for a premium 'now open' feel.
  • Retheme the tube colour with --accent; the plate halo inherits it automatically.
  • Swap the copy — any two-word offer works ('BUY NOW', 'LIVE SALE', 'ORDER TODAY').
  • Delete the ::before dashed frame for a frameless floating-sign variant.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • Flashing can trigger photosensitivity — keep the on/off frequency well under 3 flashes per second and the prefers-reduced-motion block (which freezes it lit) intact.
  • Because the effect is text-shadow-based, the copy stays real selectable text — good for SEO and screen readers, unlike an image banner.
  • On very light fallback backgrounds the glow disappears; this pattern assumes the dark plate stays behind it.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
111+16.2+113+111+

Floor set by oklch(), color-mix() as this demo is written. The core technique itself goes back further — Chrome 80+.

Only text-shadow, box-shadow and @keyframes — works everywhere; reduced-motion honoured.

Techniques used in this demo

color-mix()MDN ↗radial-gradient()MDN ↗@keyframesMDN ↗clamp()MDN ↗oklch()MDN ↗

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