<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<style type="text/css">

div {
  height: 200px; width: 200px; overflow: hidden;
  text-shadow: 210px 210px 2px gray;
  font-size: 50px;
}

/* work around potential font overflow */
span { margin-left: 5px }

</style>
<div>
<span>text</span>
</div>
