How do I install Antigravity?

Antigravity is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/antigravity. It copies antigravity.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.

Is Antigravity free for commercial use?

Antigravity needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.

Does Antigravity work with Next.js?

Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.

Can an AI coding agent install Antigravity?

Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Antigravity's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Antigravity

Motes rise as if gravity flipped, each leaving a short fading trail, and scatter away from the pointer with a push that decays as they recover. Trails are drawn by fading the canvas toward transparent, so it works on any background.

Category: Backgrounds
Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge

Examples

Antigravity

Sweep the pointer through the stream.

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`count`	`number`	`120`	Particles alive at once.
`speed`	`number`	`1`	Rise speed multiplier.
`color`	`string`	`var(--ember)`	Any CSS colour, including var(--token).
`repel`	`number`	`140`	Radius in px within which the pointer pushes particles away; 0 disables it.
`className`	`string`	—

About Antigravity

Antigravity lifts motes as if gravity flipped, each leaving a short fading trail, and scatters them away from the pointer with a push that decays as they recover.

Antigravity is an animated background for React 19, styled with Tailwind CSS 4 and animated with Motion. It drops into Next.js, Vite, Remix or Astro through the shadcn CLI as a single file you own.

When to use Antigravity

Airy SaaS heroes.
Science and space themes.
Product launches.
Calm interactive sections.

How it works

Motes have upward drift, pointer repulsion and damping, drawn with trails. It runs on a canvas capped at 2x pixel density, pauses when scrolled off screen, and reads its colours from your theme tokens so it follows dark mode.

The whole layer is decorative and aria-hidden, sits behind your content without taking pointer events it does not need, and pauses when scrolled off screen. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.

Customizing Antigravity

Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.

The Customize panel next to the preview lets you change count, speed, color, repel live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

count (number, default 120): Particles alive at once.
speed (number, default 1): Rise speed multiplier.
color (string, default var(--ember)): Any CSS colour, including var(--token).
repel (number, default 140): Radius in px within which the pointer pushes particles away; 0 disables it.

The example on this page

Antigravity: Sweep the pointer through the stream.

Goes well with Antigravity

These backgrounds pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.

Ember Field: An animated React ember background: glowing embers drift up and flicker as they cool
Smoke: A slow React smoke background: blurred plumes drifting over dark sections, CSS only
Aurora: An animated React aurora background: soft light bands drifting across a section
Grid Beams: A React grid background with beams of light running along its lines
Meteors: A React meteor shower background: streaks falling diagonally, CSS only

Install Antigravity

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/antigravity

Antigravity is part of Charcoal UI Pro. One seat unlocks all 300 Pro components, 107 landing-page sections and 100 full templates, for every personal and client project, with updates included. Add the @charcoal registry once with your access token, then the command above copies antigravity.tsx into components/ui and installs clsx, tailwind-merge.

You own the file you install: no runtime package, no lock-in, nothing to keep in sync. Change it however your product needs.

See Charcoal UI Pro pricing · Pro setup

Frequently asked questions

How do I install Antigravity?: Antigravity is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/antigravity. It copies antigravity.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Antigravity free for commercial use?: Antigravity needs a Charcoal UI Pro seat, monthly or a one-time lifetime price. A seat covers unlimited personal and commercial projects, including client work, and every future Pro component.
Does Antigravity work with Next.js?: Yes. It is a client component for React 19 styled with Tailwind CSS 4, so it works in the Next.js App Router and Pages Router, Vite, Remix and Astro.
Can an AI coding agent install Antigravity?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Antigravity's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Antigravity as Markdown · llms.txt