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Ocean Variable Weight
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Ocean Variable Weight

Letters travelling from light to heavy on a per-character delay, picking up a vertical gradient as they thicken so the wave of weight is also a wave of colour.

Texttextvariable fontweightstaggerheadlineocean
lines of CSS
30lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
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ocean-variable-weight-13503.css
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 {
  display: flex;
  gap: 0.02em;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0.4rem 0;
  font-size: 2rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.01em;
}
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span {
  font-weight: 300;
  color: #475569;
  transform-origin: 50% 100%;
  transition: font-weight 0.3s ease, color 0.3s ease, transform 0.3s cubic-bezier(0.34, 1.4, 0.64, 1);
}
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502:hover span {
  font-weight: 800;
  transform: translateY(-3px) scaleY(1.06);
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0ea5e9, #6366f1);
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  color: transparent;
}
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(1) { transition-delay: 0s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(2) { transition-delay: 0.035s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(3) { transition-delay: 0.07s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(4) { transition-delay: 0.105s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(5) { transition-delay: 0.14s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(6) { transition-delay: 0.175s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(7) { transition-delay: 0.21s; }
.fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502 span:nth-child(8) { transition-delay: 0.245s; }
ocean-variable-weight-13503.html
<h3 class="fx-v9-text-weight-ocean-13502">
  <span>V</span>
  <span>A</span>
  <span>R</span>
  <span>I</span>
  <span>A</span>
  <span>B</span>
  <span>L</span>
  <span>E</span>
</h3>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put ocean-variable-weight-13503.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-text-weight-ocean-13502">. 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-variable-weight-13503

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-variable-weight-13503

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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
Reflows

Animates font-weight (and color). The browser re-lays-out the page on every frame; prefer transform if you can.

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)
May shift layout

Animates font-weight on a box in flow, so content beside or after it can move. Measured in Chromium: no layout shifts in 5.8 s. Its detector skips movement under about 3 px a frame, so slow layout motion still moves content but is not counted.

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 Variable Weight

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