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Generator Shadow Elevation

A design system team tunes one elevation scale for cards, menus and dialogs and ships it as CSS variables.

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Choose the primitives library your project already uses. Both look the same: your theme, not the variant, controls colors, shape, type and motion.

About this feature

What it's for

  • A design system team tunes one elevation scale for cards, menus and dialogs and ships it as CSS variables..
  • A product with tinted brand backgrounds gets shadows that pick up the canvas hue instead of flat grey..
  • A dark-first dashboard replaces invisible drop shadows with hairline edges or lighter raised surfaces..

Includes

  • Elevation scale
  • Layered shadows
  • Colour matched shadows
  • Light angle control
  • Dark mode strategies
  • Light dark side by side preview
  • Css custom properties export
  • Tailwind theme tokens export

Works with

  • Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
  • React 19, Next.js App Router and Tailwind CSS 4, installed with the shadcn CLI
  • Your theme tokens, in light and dark mode

Install

Included with Agentic UI Kit (one-time license). Install needs your license key: see pricing · connect your project.

Agentic UI CLI
agentic-ui add generator-shadow-elevation
Installs through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/generator-shadow-elevation

Used in

A standalone component: drop it into any screen.

Type
Feature
Variants
Radix UI and Base UI
Themes
Light and dark
Widths
Preview it at desktop, tablet and mobile widths above.
Motion
Animated, with a reduced-motion fallback