<p id="">To better align with the underlying CSS properties and other design tools, text and box shadow properties now use X & Y offsets instead of angle and distance properties.</p><p id="">Additionally, you can now connect variables to any shadow property making it that much easier to maintain your design systems in Webflow.</p><figure class="w-richtext-figure-type-image w-richtext-align-fullwidth" style="max-width:2560px" data-rt-type="image" data-rt-align="fullwidth" data-rt-max-width="2560px"><div><img src="<https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64f9399ca7d13575ff21a675/65aaa8d6b9d852461eee82d2SlashUpdates1280x720.webp>" loading="lazy"></div></figure><p id="">Note that this will have no effect on the look of your existing text and box shadows. The existing shadows’ angle and distance properties will be automatically translated into corresponding X & Y offsets.</p><p id="">Learn more about <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/text-shadow>" id="">text shadows</a> and <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/text-shadow>" id="">box shadows</a> on <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/effects>" id="">Webflow University</a>.</p>
