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Text Shimmer
curatedfreemotion-primitives/text-shimmer
A component that applies a shimmering effect to text.
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npx shadcn@latest add @motion-primitives/text-shimmernpm deps: motion
Our notes
Shimmer sweep for 'Thinking…' / loading text. Colours come from --base-color/--base-gradient-color defaults (zinc) — override via className.- Source
- Motion Primitives
- Kind
- effect
- Categories
- text-effect
- Use as
- wrapper — wraps your existing element
- Applies to
- text-effectloaderagent-ui
- Motion
- on loop · subtle · motion · medium cost · ignores reduced motion
- Tags
- motion
- Licence
- MIT (ibelick/motion-primitives). Motion Primitives Pro is a separate paid product — not catalogued.
- Live demo
- motion-primitives.com
- Docs
- motion-primitives.com
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