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Ocean Progressive Load
Avatars & Images

Ocean Progressive Load

Blurred low-resolution stand-in sitting under the full image, the sharp layer fading over it and the status pill dropping out once there is nothing left to wait for.

Avatars & Imagesimageprogressiveblur-upplaceholderloadingocean
lines of CSS
40lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
baseline browsers
Newlybaseline browsers
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
Backdrop
Loading full resolution
Open a live copy in

Vue, Svelte, styled-components and Tailwind exports are part of Pro. HTML, CSS and React are free forever.

ocean-progressive-load-12503.css
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502 {
  position: relative;
  width: 218px;
  height: 138px;
  overflow: hidden;
  border-radius: 0.6rem;
  background: #0b1120;
}
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502 i { position: absolute; inset: 0; }
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502 .lo {
  background:
    radial-gradient(50% 60% at 28% 32%, #0ea5e9, transparent 70%),
    radial-gradient(60% 70% at 76% 70%, #6366f1, transparent 72%),
    linear-gradient(150deg, #1e293b, #0b1120);
  filter: blur(14px) saturate(1.4);
  transform: scale(1.15);
}
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502 .hi {
  background:
    radial-gradient(38% 46% at 28% 32%, #0ea5e9, transparent 68%),
    radial-gradient(44% 52% at 76% 70%, #6366f1, transparent 70%),
    repeating-linear-gradient(58deg, rgba(255,255,255,0.05) 0 2px, transparent 2px 7px),
    linear-gradient(150deg, #1e293b, #0b1120);
  opacity: 0;
  transition: opacity 0.55s ease;
}
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502:hover .hi { opacity: 1; }
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502 span {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0.6rem;
  bottom: 0.6rem;
  padding: 0.16rem 0.42rem;
  border-radius: 999px;
  font-size: 0.63rem;
  color: #cbd5e1;
  background: rgba(11,17,32,0.72);
  backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
  transition: opacity 0.3s ease;
}
.fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502:hover span { opacity: 0; }
ocean-progressive-load-12503.html
<div class="fx-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502">
  <i class="lo"></i>
  <i class="hi"></i>
  <span>Loading full resolution</span>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ocean-progressive-load-12503.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-v9-avatar-progressive-ocean-12502">. 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-progressive-load-12503

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-progressive-load-12503

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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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  • Unlimited bundle exports, in Vue, Svelte and Tailwind
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7 variations of Ocean Progressive Load

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