Came across this thread:

CSS superfriends! Have you seen examples of how to do multi-line padded text like this article on @css (https://t.co/2j8p4jmaT4), but with a gradient that doesn't reset for each line? pic.twitter.com/MVPdAjxt1W — Dan Mall (@danmall) December 3, 2018

My first thought process was:

The lines are padded, and that’s tricky enough to pull off.

box-decoration-break is probably our friend here.

But it turns out we need a litttttle extra trickery to make it happen.

If a solid color is fine, then some padding combined with box-decoration-break should get the basic framework:

See the Pen Multiline Padding with box-decoration-break by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

But a gradient on there is gonna get weird on multiple lines:

See the Pen Multiline Padding with box-decoration-break by Chris Coyier (@chriscoyier) on CodePen.

I’m gonna credit Matthias Ott, from that thread, with what looks like the perfect answer to me:

See the Pen Multiline background gradient with mix-blend-mode by Matthias Ott (@matthiasott) on CodePen.