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Stencil Plate Text
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Stencil Plate Text

A riveted metal stencil with the word cut out of it lies over the page, then lifts away on hover to reveal the grainy sprayed paint that went through the openings.

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lines of CSS
46lines of CSS
dependencies
0dependencies
browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
motion only on interaction
Hovermotion only on interaction
Backdrop
FREIGHTFREIGHT
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stencil-plate-text-15657.css
.fx-v14-text-stencil-15656 {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  font-family: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, monospace;
  font-size: 1.5rem;
  font-weight: 800;
  letter-spacing: 0.14em;
}
.fx-v14-text-stencil-15656 .spray {
  display: block;
  padding: 0.1em 0.1em;
  background-image:
    radial-gradient(rgba(15, 23, 42, 0.5) 30%, rgba(0,0,0,0) 32%),
    linear-gradient(180deg, #fbbf24, #ea580c);
  background-size: 3px 3px, 100% 100%;
  -webkit-background-clip: text;
  background-clip: text;
  color: transparent;
  -webkit-text-fill-color: transparent;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 0 6px rgba(251, 146, 60, 0.35));
}
.fx-v14-text-stencil-15656 .plate {
  position: absolute;
  top: -8px;
  bottom: -8px;
  left: -14px;
  right: -14px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  justify-content: center;
  padding: 0 14px;
  color: #0f172a;
  background:
    radial-gradient(circle at 8px 8px, #64748b 0 2px, rgba(0,0,0,0) 2.5px),
    radial-gradient(circle at calc(100% - 8px) 8px, #64748b 0 2px, rgba(0,0,0,0) 2.5px),
    radial-gradient(circle at 8px calc(100% - 8px), #64748b 0 2px, rgba(0,0,0,0) 2.5px),
    radial-gradient(circle at calc(100% - 8px) calc(100% - 8px), #64748b 0 2px, rgba(0,0,0,0) 2.5px),
    linear-gradient(155deg, #e2e8f0, #94a3b8);
  border-radius: 4px;
  box-shadow: 0 6px 14px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
  transition: transform 0.55s cubic-bezier(0.5, 0, 0.35, 1), opacity 0.5s ease 0.05s;
}
.fx-v14-text-stencil-15656:hover .plate {
  transform: translate(26px, -22px) rotate(-6deg);
  opacity: 0;
}
stencil-plate-text-15657.html
<div class="fx-v14-text-stencil-15656">
  <span class="spray">FREIGHT</span>
  <span class="plate">FREIGHT</span>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put stencil-plate-text-15657.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-text-stencil-15656">. 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 stencil-plate-text-15657

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 stencil-plate-text-15657

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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 Stencil Plate Text

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