CarveMe tries to simulate an inset text-shadow with CSS3. Since Safari5 is out, we now can finally use box-shadow: inset for all our shiny buttons. But what about an inset shadow on text? Unfortunately text-shadow: inset doesn’t work. But there is a technique that kinda simulates the same effect.

background-color: rgba(82,96,117,0.5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
text-shadow: rgba(255,255,255,0.5) 0 5px 6px;

So instead of having a dark inset shadow on top of the bright text, we use a bright text-shadow on the dark background.

See the Demo →