I wanted to create a real mid-twentieth century look for the interface, without resorting to images. The button style is inspired by typewriter keys and glowing elevator buttons. The gold ring is a series of box-shadows. The glowing effect is a combination of background color clipped to transparent text and a text-shadow overlay.
[codepen_embed height=”350″ theme_id=”0″ slug_hash=”jvZMVb” default_tab=”css,result” user=”mwilber”]See the Pen Vintage Button by Matthew Wilber (@mwilber) on CodePen.[/codepen_embed]