Can I use glare hover on images?

Yes. Wrap any element, an image, a card or a button, and a diagonal band of light sweeps across it on hover. The band is a translated layer, so nothing underneath repaints.

How do I install Glare Hover?

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

Is Glare Hover free for commercial use?

Glare Hover 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 Glare Hover 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 Glare Hover?

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

Glare Hover

A diagonal band of light sweeps across whatever you wrap when the pointer arrives. The band is a translated layer, so nothing underneath repaints.

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

Examples

Glare Hover

Turn the angle and width, then hover the card.

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`angle`	`number`	`135`	Direction of the sweep in degrees; 0 moves up, 90 moves right.
`color`	`string`	`"var(--foreground)"`	Any CSS colour; softened to a band automatically.
`size`	`number`	`40`	Band width as a percentage of the element.
`duration`	`number`	`0.8`	Seconds for one sweep.
`playOnce`	`boolean`	`false`	Sweep once per hover and reset silently instead of sweeping back out.
`children`	`ReactNode`	—
`className`	`string`	—

About Glare Hover

Glare Hover sweeps a diagonal band of light across whatever you wrap when the pointer arrives. The band is a translated layer, so nothing underneath repaints.

Glare Hover is an interactive effect 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 Glare Hover

Product cards.
Buttons and badges.
Credit card visuals.
Thumbnails.

How it works

The glare is a gradient that translates across once per hover.

Pointer effects have a keyboard or static equivalent, and nothing that matters depends on hover alone. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.

Customizing Glare Hover

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 angle, size, duration, playOnce live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

angle (number, default 135): Direction of the sweep in degrees; 0 moves up, 90 moves right.
color (string, default "var(--foreground)"): Any CSS colour; softened to a band automatically.
size (number, default 40): Band width as a percentage of the element.
duration (number, default 0.8): Seconds for one sweep.
playOnce (boolean, default false): Sweep once per hover and reset silently instead of sweeping back out.

The example on this page

Glare Hover: Turn the angle and width, then hover the card.

Goes well with Glare Hover

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

Hover Reveal List: A React hover reveal list: hovering a row floats its image beside the pointer
Pixel Grid: A React pixel grid: cells light up under the pointer and fade slowly
Draggable Cards: React draggable cards: polaroids scattered on a table you can pick up
Image Accordion: A React image accordion: the hovered panel expands to reveal its caption
Velocity Marquee: A React velocity marquee: big text that speeds up and flips with scroll

Install Glare Hover

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/glare-hover

Glare Hover 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 glare-hover.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

Can I use glare hover on images?: Yes. Wrap any element, an image, a card or a button, and a diagonal band of light sweeps across it on hover. The band is a translated layer, so nothing underneath repaints.
How do I install Glare Hover?: Glare Hover is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/glare-hover. It copies glare-hover.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Glare Hover free for commercial use?: Glare Hover 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 Glare Hover 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 Glare Hover?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Glare Hover's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Glare Hover as Markdown · llms.txt