Organic Shimmer
A shimmer whose band ripples like heat haze with a glowing edge, moved by transform so it composites.
- Category: Transitions
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Organic Shimmer
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
children | string | — | |
duration | number | 2.6 | |
color | string | — | Band colour; defaults to the foreground. |
About Organic Shimmer
Organic Shimmer is a shimmer whose band ripples like heat haze with a glowing edge, moved by transform so it composites cheaply.
Organic Shimmer is an UI transition 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 Organic Shimmer
- AI loading states.
- Skeleton text.
- Highlighting new labels.
- Thinking indicators.
How it works
A displaced gradient layer translates across the text.
The change it animates is also announced to assistive tech, and the motion is short enough never to block what the user wants to do. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Organic Shimmer
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 text, duration, color live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- duration (number, default 2.6).
- color (string): Band colour; defaults to the foreground.
Goes well with Organic Shimmer
These transitions pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Card Resize: A React box that springs to the size of its content
- Notification Badge: A React notification badge that pops in and slides new counts in
- Page Transition: React page transitions: native-feeling push and pop between views
- Error Shake: A React error shake: a decaying head shake for wrong input
- Arrow Link: A React arrow link whose chevron grows a stem on hover, CSS only
Install Organic Shimmer
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/organic-shimmerOrganic Shimmer 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 organic-shimmer.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 is organic shimmer different from a normal shimmer?
- A normal shimmer slides a straight band of light. Organic Shimmer bends the band like heat haze with a glowing edge, and it moves by transform so it stays cheap even on long labels.
- How do I install Organic Shimmer?
- Organic Shimmer is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/organic-shimmer. It copies organic-shimmer.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Organic Shimmer free for commercial use?
- Organic Shimmer 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 Organic Shimmer 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 Organic Shimmer?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Organic Shimmer's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.