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Starfield Background
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Starfield Background

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A repeating pattern of multi-color stars on a deep navy gradient that gently twinkles in opacity.

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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
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bg-stars.css
.fx-bg-stars {
  position: relative;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  min-height: 180px;
  border-radius: 0.75rem;
  background:
    radial-gradient(2px 2px at 20px 30px, #fff, transparent),
    radial-gradient(1px 1px at 80px 90px, #fff, transparent),
    radial-gradient(1.5px 1.5px at 140px 50px, #93c5fd, transparent),
    radial-gradient(1px 1px at 200px 120px, #fff, transparent),
    radial-gradient(2px 2px at 260px 30px, #fde68a, transparent),
    radial-gradient(1px 1px at 320px 100px, #fff, transparent),
    linear-gradient(180deg, #0b1020, #1e1b4b);
  background-repeat: repeat;
  background-size: 360px 180px, 360px 180px, 360px 180px, 360px 180px, 360px 180px, 360px 180px, 100% 100%;
  animation: fx-stars-twinkle 4s ease-in-out infinite alternate;
}
@keyframes fx-stars-twinkle {
  0%   { opacity: 0.7; }
  100% { opacity: 1; }
}

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

What do I do with this?

  1. Put bg-stars.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-bg-stars">. 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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License

Free to read, copy and install, for personal and non-commercial projects. Shipping it in client work or a paid product needs Pro ($79 once). The source lands in your repo and stops being ours — no attribution, nothing to upgrade.

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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 0.1 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 Starfield Background

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