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Cube Face Nav
Navigation & Menus

Cube Face Nav

A menu printed on the four sides of a solid cube standing on a lit floor, which turns a full quarter on hover so the next section swings round to face you and the current one rotates away.

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lines of CSS
41lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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cube-face-nav-15683.css
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 {
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  width: 168px;
  height: 152px;
  perspective: 620px;
  background: radial-gradient(ellipse at 50% 84%, rgba(56,189,248,0.22), transparent 62%);
}
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .cb {
  position: relative;
  width: 94px;
  height: 94px;
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  transform: rotateX(-14deg) rotateY(-26deg);
  transition: transform 0.72s cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);
}
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .cb span {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  display: grid;
  align-content: center;
  justify-items: center;
  gap: 0.3rem;
  font-size: 0.68rem;
  color: #e2e8f0;
  background: linear-gradient(150deg, rgba(30,41,59,0.96), rgba(12,20,36,0.96));
  border: 1px solid rgba(56,189,248,0.45);
  border-radius: 0.35rem;
  backface-visibility: hidden;
  -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
}
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .cb b { font-size: 1.1rem; font-weight: 400; color: #7dd3fc; }
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .fr { transform: translateZ(47px); }
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .ri { transform: rotateY(90deg) translateZ(47px); }
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .bk { transform: rotateY(180deg) translateZ(47px); }
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .le { transform: rotateY(-90deg) translateZ(47px); }
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682 .tp {
  transform: rotateX(90deg) translateZ(47px);
  background: linear-gradient(150deg, rgba(56,189,248,0.3), rgba(30,41,59,0.9));
}
.fx-v14-nav-cube-15682:hover .cb { transform: rotateX(-14deg) rotateY(-116deg); }
cube-face-nav-15683.html
<div class="fx-v14-nav-cube-15682">
  <div class="cb">
    <span class="fr"><b>&#9678;</b>Overview</span>
    <span class="ri"><b>&#9635;</b>Projects</span>
    <span class="bk"><b>&#9737;</b>Team</span>
    <span class="le"><b>&#9993;</b>Contact</span>
    <span class="tp"></span>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put cube-face-nav-15683.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-v14-nav-cube-15682">. 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.
npx hoverlab add cube-face-nav-15683

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

npx hoverlab add cube-face-nav-15683

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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
Brief motion, no guard

Animates briefly or on interaction. Only looping motion gets a guard in this catalog; copy the one from the Insights tab if this ships on a critical path.

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)
No flashing found

No repeating change in opacity, colour or brightness large enough to count as a flash.

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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Shipping one commercially

Copying the code is free. Putting it in client work or a paid product is what Pro is for — the licence, not the access.

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7 variations of Cube Face Nav

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