Motion Text Variable Proximity
Heading whose font weight follows the mouse cursor letter by letter.
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 motion
What it's for
- Heading whose font weight follows the mouse cursor letter by letter.
- Variable font hover effect where letters get bolder near the pointer.
- Interactive typography hero that reacts to cursor proximity.
Includes
- Variable font weight
- Pointer proximity
- Per letter weight
- Falloff curves
- Smoothed follow
- Locked letter cells
- Fine pointer only
- Pause offscreen
Works with
- Radix UI and Base UI primitives (pick the one your project uses)
- React 19 and Tailwind CSS 4 in Next.js (App Router), Vite, React Router or TanStack Start, installed with the agentic-ui or 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 motion-text-variable-proximityInstalls through shadcn and adapts the component to your design tokens.
shadcn CLI
npx shadcn@4.17.0 add @agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximityUsed in
A standalone component: drop it into any screen.
- Type
- Motion
- 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
- npm packages
- None beyond your project's React and Next.js
- Registry dependencies
lib-motion- Files
7 files
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/motion-text-variable-proximity/motion-text-variable-proximity.tsx
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/styles/motion-text-variable-proximity.css
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/motion-text-variable-proximity/use-proximity.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/motion-text-variable-proximity/proximity-model.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/_shared/types.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/_shared/apply-defaults.ts
- components/agentic-ui/motion-text-variable-proximity/_shared/split-text.ts
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