Can Hiding Text With CSS Hurt an SEO Effort ?

[binarynpixel]

Hello guys,
Hidden content may be harmful for SEO?
we all know CSS is helpful for making all webpages to be standard in a given font, color, etc.... just wondering, if i make color of a word same as the

background's color in external css file, will search engines know i am hide some words ? will it hurt SEO ?

[blessy_smith]

To hide content from website is not a good SEO technique and it comes in blackhat SEO, write your website content unique and fresh for user not for search engine. This will be help to rank your website in top search result.

[noahwilson]

hidden text is harmful for website seo, its not as per search engine's rules so its a blackhat seo method.

[madtteam28]

Hidden text is a black hat seo technique. And Search engine like Google hate Black Hat techniques. So, It is not good to hide text according to me.