Is it possible to apply CSS to half of a character?

Question

What I am looking for:

A way to style one HALF of a character. (In this case, half the letter being transparent)

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Answer 1

Here an ugly implementation in canvas. I tried this solution, but the results are worse than I expected, so here it is anyway.

$("div").each(function() {
  var CHARS = $(this).text().split('');
  $(this).html("");
  $.each(CHARS, function(index, char) {
    var canvas = $("")
      .css("width", "40px")
      .css("height", "40px")
      .get(0);
    $("div").append(canvas);
    var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
    var gradient = ctx.createLinearGradient(0, 0, 130, 0);
    gradient.addColorStop("0", "blue");
    gradient.addColorStop("0.5", "blue");
    gradient.addColorStop("0.51", "red");
    gradient.addColorStop("1.0", "red");
    ctx.font = '130pt Calibri';
    ctx.fillStyle = gradient;
    ctx.fillText(char, 10, 130);
  });
});

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