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Hourglass Timer Icon
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Hourglass Timer Icon

A framed hourglass whose upper chamber empties through a thin stream into the heap below, and once the sand has run through the whole frame turns over to start again.

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hourglass-timer-icon-15791.css
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 {
  position: relative;
  width: 60px;
  height: 86px;
  animation: fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-flip 6s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .gl {
  position: absolute;
  left: 10px;
  top: 9px;
  width: 40px;
  height: 68px;
  background: rgba(148,163,184,0.24);
  -webkit-clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 55% 50%, 100% 100%, 0 100%, 45% 50%);
  clip-path: polygon(0 0, 100% 0, 55% 50%, 100% 100%, 0 100%, 45% 50%);
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .s1,
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .s2 {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  height: 34px;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #fcd34d, #f59e0b);
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .s1 { top: 0; transform-origin: 50% 100%; animation: fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-drain 6s linear infinite; }
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .s2 { bottom: 0; transform-origin: 50% 100%; animation: fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-heap 6s linear infinite; }
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .fl {
  position: absolute;
  left: 50%;
  top: 30px;
  width: 2px;
  height: 30px;
  margin-left: -1px;
  background: #fcd34d;
  animation: fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-pour 6s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .cp {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  width: 60px;
  height: 8px;
  border-radius: 4px;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #cbd5e1, #64748b);
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .cp.t { top: 0; }
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .cp.b { bottom: 0; }
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .po {
  position: absolute;
  top: 6px;
  width: 4px;
  height: 74px;
  border-radius: 2px;
  background: linear-gradient(90deg, #94a3b8, #475569);
}
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .po.l { left: 3px; }
.fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 .po.r { right: 3px; }
@keyframes fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-drain {
  0%        { transform: scaleY(1); }
  80%, 100% { transform: scaleY(0); }
}
@keyframes fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-heap {
  0%        { transform: scaleY(0); }
  80%, 100% { transform: scaleY(1); }
}
@keyframes fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-pour {
  0%, 3%    { opacity: 0; }
  8%, 74%   { opacity: 1; }
  80%, 100% { opacity: 0; }
}
@keyframes fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790-flip {
  0%, 86% { transform: rotate(0deg); }
  100%    { transform: rotate(180deg); }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790,
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790::before,
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790::after,
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 *,
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 *::before,
  .fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
hourglass-timer-icon-15791.html
<div class="fx-v14-ic-hourglass-15790">
  <i class="gl">
    <b class="s1"></b>
    <b class="fl"></b>
    <b class="s2"></b>
  </i>
  <i class="cp t"></i>
  <i class="cp b"></i>
  <i class="po l"></i>
  <i class="po r"></i>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put hourglass-timer-icon-15791.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-ic-hourglass-15790">. 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

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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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