# Generator Shadow Elevation

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

- id: `generator-shadow-elevation`
- Page: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/components/generator-shadow-elevation
- Live preview: https://agentic-ui-kit.com/live/component/generator-shadow-elevation

## Install

```bash
agentic-ui add generator-shadow-elevation
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/generator-shadow-elevation
```

## Metadata

- **Level:** feature
- **Category:** feature
- **Installable in:** Radix UI (registry variant new-york), Base UI (registry variant base-vega)
- **Capabilities:** 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, tsx-component-export, theme-spec-fragment-export, shadcn-registry-item-export, presets, versioned-url-state, copy-to-clipboard, file-download
- **Intents:** configure, create-edit, import-export
- **Suits domains:** saas, settings, devtools, analytics
- **Interaction:** click, keyboard-navigation
- **Screen role:** management
- **Density:** medium
- **Dark mode:** yes
- **Use it 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.
- **Avoid when:** The interface is deliberately flat with no shadows; use borders only., A single one-off shadow is needed; write the box-shadow by hand.
- **Preserve when adapting:** token-derived-shadow-colour, static-shadows-no-animation, light-and-dark-values-per-level, generate-config-purity
- **Replace when adapting:** presets, preview-canvases, level-role-labels
- **Adaptation effort:** low
- **Coupling:** low
- **Quality score:** 8.7/10
- **Quality breakdown:** visual 8/10, responsive 8/10, accessibility 9/10, code 9/10
- **npm dependencies:** @agentic-ui/generator-foundation, @agentic-ui/tokens, react
- **Motion:** profile subtle, library css, reduced-motion fallback yes, target 55 fps
- **Registry dependencies:** lib-generator-foundation