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Ocean Card Stack
3D & Perspective

Ocean Card Stack

Stack of ocean cards that fans out on hover — depth from layering, not perspective, so it stays crisp.

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lines of CSS
32lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
Backdrop
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3 files changed

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ocean-card-stack-6443.css
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 {
  position: relative;
  width: 200px;
  height: 112px;
  cursor: pointer;
}
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 i,
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 .top {
  position: absolute;
  inset: 0;
  border-radius: 0.8rem;
  transition: transform 0.45s cubic-bezier(0.16, 1, 0.3, 1);
}
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 .l3 {
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.05);
  transform: translateY(14px) scale(0.9);
}
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 .l2 {
  background: rgba(255,255,255,0.09);
  transform: translateY(7px) scale(0.95);
}
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 .top {
  padding: 1rem;
  color: #fff;
  background: linear-gradient(140deg, #0ea5e9, #6366f1);
  box-shadow: 0 16px 36px rgba(0,0,0,0.45), inset 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,0.25);
}
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 strong { font-size: 0.92rem; }
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442 p { margin: 0.25rem 0 0; font-size: 0.76rem; opacity: 0.85; }
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442:hover .l2 { transform: translateY(11px) rotate(-3deg) scale(0.96); }
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442:hover .l3 { transform: translateY(21px) rotate(3.5deg) scale(0.92); }
.fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442:hover .top { transform: translateY(-4px); }
ocean-card-stack-6443.html
<div class="fx-m3-stack-ocean-6442">
  <i class="l3"></i>
  <i class="l2"></i>
  <div class="top">
    <strong>Design tokens</strong>
    <p>3 files changed</p>
  </div>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ocean-card-stack-6443.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-m3-stack-ocean-6442">. 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 ocean-card-stack-6443

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 ocean-card-stack-6443

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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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7 variations of Ocean Card Stack

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