How do I install Falling Text?

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

Is Falling Text free for commercial use?

Falling Text 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 Falling Text 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 Falling Text?

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

Falling Text

Words drop under gravity, bounce off the walls and pile up at the bottom, and can be picked up and thrown. The physics is a few lines of its own; no engine.

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

Examples

Falling Text

Click to drop the words, drag one to throw it, click again to put them back.

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`text`	`string`	—
`trigger`	`"view" \| "hover" \| "click"`	`"view"`	What makes the words drop. With "click", clicking again puts them back.
`gravity`	`number`	`1`
`highlight`	`string[]`	`[]`	Words to colour ember.
`className`	`string`	—	Give the box a height so there is room to fall.

About Falling Text

Falling Text drops words under gravity: they bounce off the walls, pile up at the bottom and can be picked up and thrown. The physics is a few lines of its own, with no engine.

Falling Text is a text animation 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 Falling Text

Playful hero sections.
Interactive about pages.
Event and party sites.
Easter eggs.

How it works

Each word is a body with gravity, wall bounces and separation from its neighbours. trigger chooses view, hover or click, and highlight colours chosen words.

The real text stays in the page for screen readers and search engines; the animated letters are decorative copies marked aria-hidden. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.

Customizing Falling Text

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 trigger, gravity live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

text (string).
trigger ("view" | "hover" | "click", default "view"): What makes the words drop. With "click", clicking again puts them back.
gravity (number, default 1).
highlight (string[], default []): Words to colour ember.

The example on this page

Falling Text: Click to drop the words, drag one to throw it, click again to put them back.

Goes well with Falling Text

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

Scramble Text: React scramble text: characters cycle through glyphs before locking in
Rotating Text: React rotating text that rolls between words letter by letter and resizes smoothly
Highlight Text: React highlight text: a marker sweep, hand-drawn underline or scribbled circle on scroll
Text Morph: React text morph: shared letters glide to new spots while the rest blur in and out
Split Flap: A React split-flap display: every cell flips through the drum to its letter

Install Falling Text

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/falling-text

Falling Text 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 falling-text.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 Falling Text?: Falling Text is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/falling-text. It copies falling-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Falling Text free for commercial use?: Falling Text 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 Falling Text 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 Falling Text?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Falling Text's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

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