Gradient Blinds

Vertical blinds over an ember-to-foreground gradient that breathe open and closed in sequence and widen around the pointer.

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

Examples

Gradient Blinds

API reference

About Gradient Blinds

Gradient Blinds opens and closes vertical blinds over an accent-to-foreground gradient in sequence, widening around the pointer.

Gradient Blinds 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 Gradient Blinds

• Bold SaaS heroes.
• Media and streaming.
• Section transitions.
• Event pages.

How it works

Each blind is a clipped slice of one gradient whose width breathes with a wave. 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 Gradient Blinds

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 blinds, speed, spotlight live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

• blinds (number, default 16).
• speed (number, default 5): Seconds per cycle.
• color (string, default "var(--foreground)"): Gradient end colour.
• spotlight (boolean, default true).

Goes well with Gradient Blinds

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 Gradient Blinds

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/gradient-blinds

Gradient Blinds 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 gradient-blinds.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 Gradient Blinds?

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

Is Gradient Blinds free for commercial use?

Gradient Blinds 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 Gradient Blinds 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 Gradient Blinds?

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

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