Halftone Reveal
The image sits under halftone dots sized by the darkness beneath them, a print of the picture; hovering shrinks the dots away in a wave from where the pointer entered.
- Category: Image
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Halftone Reveal
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
src | string | — | |
alt | string | — | |
trigger | "hover" | "view" | "hover" | |
dot | number | 10 | Halftone cell size in px. |
duration | number | 0.9 | |
color | string | "var(--background)" | Dot colour. |
className | string | — |
About Halftone Reveal
Halftone Reveal sets an image under halftone dots sized by the darkness beneath them, a print of the picture, and shrinks them away in a wave from where the pointer entered.
Halftone Reveal is an image 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 Halftone Reveal
- Editorial and print brands.
- Photography portfolios.
- Retro and pop-art.
- Product reveals.
How it works
Luminance is sampled once per cell, and the reveal front travels from the entry point on a canvas.
Images keep their alt text, controls are keyboard operable, and the effect never hides the content it decorates. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Halftone Reveal
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, dot, duration live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- src (string).
- alt (string).
- trigger ("hover" | "view", default "hover").
- dot (number, default 10): Halftone cell size in px.
- duration (number, default 0.9).
- color (string, default "var(--background)"): Dot colour.
Goes well with Halftone Reveal
These image pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Parallax Image: A React parallax image that drifts slower than the page as you scroll
- Pixelate Reveal: A React pixelate reveal: images resolve from chunky pixels to full detail
- Image Reveal: A React image reveal: a clip-path wipe uncovers the image as it settles
- Zoom Lens: A React zoom lens: a magnifier follows the pointer over product images
- Ken Burns: A React Ken Burns slideshow: slow pan and zoom crossfading through images
Install Halftone Reveal
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/halftone-revealHalftone Reveal 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 halftone-reveal.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 the halftone reveal on scroll instead of hover?
- Yes. Set trigger to view and it reveals once the image scrolls into view.
- How do I install Halftone Reveal?
- Halftone Reveal is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/halftone-reveal. It copies halftone-reveal.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Halftone Reveal free for commercial use?
- Halftone Reveal 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 Halftone Reveal 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 Halftone Reveal?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Halftone Reveal's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.