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Twisting Ribbon
3D & Perspective

Twisting Ribbon

A row of gradient slats that each turn a half revolution on a delay, so a twist travels along the ribbon and back.

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lines of CSS
43lines of CSS
dependencies
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browser, for years
Everybrowser, for years
stops under reduced motion
Guardedstops under reduced motion
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twisting-ribbon-15473.css
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 {
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  gap: 2px;
  height: 96px;
  perspective: 500px;
}
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i {
  display: block;
  width: 15px;
  height: 62px;
  background: linear-gradient(180deg, #f472b6, #8b5cf6);
  box-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(139,92,246,0.35);
  transform-style: preserve-3d;
  animation: fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472-twist 3.6s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(1) { animation-delay: 0s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(2) { animation-delay: 0.1s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(3) { animation-delay: 0.2s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(4) { animation-delay: 0.3s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(5) { animation-delay: 0.4s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(6) { animation-delay: 0.5s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(7) { animation-delay: 0.6s; }
.fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 i:nth-child(8) { animation-delay: 0.7s; }
@keyframes fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472-twist {
  0%, 100% { transform: rotateY(0deg); }
  50%      { transform: rotateY(180deg); }
}

@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472,
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472::before,
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472::after,
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 *,
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 *::before,
  .fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472 *::after {
    animation-duration: 1ms !important;
    animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
    animation-delay: 0ms !important;
    transition-duration: 1ms !important;
    transition-delay: 0ms !important;
  }
}
twisting-ribbon-15473.html
<div class="fx-v13-3d-ribbon-15472">
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
  <i></i>
</div>

What do I do with this?

  1. Put twisting-ribbon-15473.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-v13-3d-ribbon-15472">. 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 twisting-ribbon-15473

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 twisting-ribbon-15473

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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
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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7 variations of Twisting Ribbon

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