Ghost Fibers

Faint fibre strands drift up from the bottom edge, curling as they rise and fading near the top, like smoke made of threads.

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

Examples

Ghost Fibers

API reference

About Ghost Fibers

Ghost Fibers drifts faint fibre strands up from the bottom edge, curling as they rise and fading near the top, like smoke made of threads.

Ghost Fibers 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 Ghost Fibers

• Moody dark heroes.
• Perfume and luxury brands.
• Music and film.
• Mystery and storytelling pages.

How it works

Fibres follow wandering headings and draw fading trails, softened with a CSS blur. 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 Ghost Fibers

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

• count (number, default 18).
• speed (number, default 1).
• color (string, default "var(--muted-foreground)").
• blur (number, default 1.5): Blur in px.

Goes well with Ghost Fibers

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 Ghost Fibers

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/ghost-fibers

Ghost Fibers 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 ghost-fibers.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 Ghost Fibers?

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

Is Ghost Fibers free for commercial use?

Ghost Fibers 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 Ghost Fibers 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 Ghost Fibers?

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

Ghost Fibers as Markdown · llms.txt