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Aurora Curtain Bands
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Aurora Curtain Bands

Blurred vertical ribbons of green and violet light that stretch and settle out of phase, like an aurora curtain over a dark horizon.

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stops under reduced motion
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aurora-curtain-bands-15389.css
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 {
  position: relative;
  display: flex;
  align-items: flex-end;
  gap: 6px;
  width: 240px;
  height: 140px;
  padding: 0 10px;
  border-radius: 0.75rem;
  overflow: hidden;
  background: linear-gradient(#020617, #071a2b);
  box-shadow: inset 0 -30px 40px rgba(0,0,0,0.6), 0 0 0 1px rgba(56,189,248,0.25);
}
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i {
  flex: 1;
  height: 70%;
  border-radius: 40% 40% 0 0;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(52,211,153,0) 0%, rgba(52,211,153,0.55) 45%, rgba(56,189,248,0.85) 100%);
  filter: blur(6px);
  transform-origin: bottom;
  animation: fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388-sway 6s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i:nth-child(2) { animation-delay: -0.9s; background: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(167,139,250,0) 0%, rgba(167,139,250,0.5) 45%, rgba(56,189,248,0.8) 100%); }
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i:nth-child(3) { animation-delay: -1.8s; }
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i:nth-child(4) { animation-delay: -2.7s; background: linear-gradient(180deg, rgba(244,114,182,0) 0%, rgba(244,114,182,0.4) 45%, rgba(129,140,248,0.8) 100%); }
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i:nth-child(5) { animation-delay: -3.6s; }
.fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 i:nth-child(6) { animation-delay: -4.5s; }
@keyframes fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388-sway {
  0%, 100% { transform: scaleY(1) translateY(0); opacity: 0.75; }
  35%      { transform: scaleY(1.35) translateY(-6px); opacity: 1; }
  70%      { transform: scaleY(0.8) translateY(4px); opacity: 0.6; }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388,
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388::before,
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388::after,
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 *,
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 *::before,
  .fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
aurora-curtain-bands-15389.html
<div class="fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388">
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put aurora-curtain-bands-15389.css anywhere your page already loads CSS from — in Next.js that is app/globals.css, or any stylesheet with a <link> in your HTML.
  2. Then put the class on the element you want it on: <button class="fx-v13-bg-curtain-15388">. The CSS does nothing until a class name in it matches something on the page.
  • Link the stylesheet, then paste the markup wherever you need it.
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What's included

  • The markup and the stylesheet, in whichever framework you pick
  • No runtime dependencies

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

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Motion safety

Static estimate, read from the CSS

Reduced motion
Guarded

Ships a prefers-reduced-motion block, so the loop settles into its end state for visitors who ask for less motion.

What it animates
Compositor only

Only transform, opacity or filter: the GPU can run it without re-laying-out or repainting the page.

Flashing (WCAG 2.3.1)
Under 3 flashes/s

Its brightest loop is about 0.2 a second. Estimated from duration, iterations and keyframes, not from rendered frames.

Layout shift (CLS)
No shift expected

Nothing it animates moves or resizes the box in flow. A category from the CSS, not a measurement for this effect.

Every row is read from the shipped CSS. Only a figure marked measured came from a browser. Customizing the speed changes the timing, so recheck a customized copy. How it is computed

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7 variations of Aurora Curtain Bands

Finished looks, each one a position in the customizer above. Copy any of them, or open it and keep moving the sliders.