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Process Cycle Ring
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Process Cycle Ring

Four stage pills pinned around a dashed circle with a coloured arc orbiting it, for a process that never really ends.

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process-cycle-ring-15519.css
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 {
  position: relative;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  width: 128px;
  height: 128px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 2px dashed #29344d;
}
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518::before {
  content: '';
  position: absolute;
  inset: -2px;
  border-radius: 50%;
  border: 2px solid transparent;
  border-top-color: #22d3ee;
  border-right-color: #6366f1;
  animation: fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518-orbit 5s linear infinite;
}
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 b {
  font-size: 0.75rem;
  letter-spacing: 0.16em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  color: #64748b;
}
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 span {
  position: absolute;
  padding: 0.22rem 0.6rem;
  font-size: 0.68rem;
  color: #e2e8f0;
  background: #16203a;
  border: 1px solid #29344d;
  border-radius: 999px;
  transition: border-color 0.2s ease, color 0.2s ease, transform 0.25s ease;
}
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .n { top: -12px; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .s { bottom: -12px; left: 50%; transform: translateX(-50%); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .e { right: -22px; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .w { left: -24px; top: 50%; transform: translateY(-50%); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .n:hover, .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .s:hover { transform: translateX(-50%) scale(1.08); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .e:hover, .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 .w:hover { transform: translateY(-50%) scale(1.08); }
.fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 span:hover { border-color: #22d3ee; color: #a5f3fc; }
@keyframes fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518-orbit { from { transform: rotate(0deg); } to { transform: rotate(360deg); } }

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518,
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518::before,
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518::after,
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 *,
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 *::before,
  .fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
process-cycle-ring-15519.html
<div class="fx-v13-tl-cycle-15518">
  <b>Loop</b>
  <span class="n">Plan</span>
  <span class="e">Build</span>
  <span class="s">Ship</span>
  <span class="w">Learn</span>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put process-cycle-ring-15519.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-v13-tl-cycle-15518">. 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

Works with

  • React
  • Vue
  • Svelte
  • Tailwind
  • styled-components
  • Plain CSS

npx hoverlab add process-cycle-ring-15519

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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
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
Repaints

Animates border-color, color. No reflow, but the browser repaints every frame, which is fine for one element and costly across many.

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 Process Cycle Ring

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