Both. texture switches between brushed metal grain and a smooth polished finish.

How do I install Reflective Card?

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

Is Reflective Card free for commercial use?

Reflective Card 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 Reflective Card 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 Reflective Card?

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

Reflective Card

A brushed- or polished-metal card. The specular highlight sits under the pointer, a second reflection slides the other way as the card tilts, and the grain parallaxes beneath it.

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

Examples

Reflective Card

Switch texture to see the highlight stretch along the grain or tighten to a point.

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`strength`	`number`	`1`	0 to 2. Brightness of the reflection.
`texture`	`"brushed" \| "smooth"`	`"brushed"`	Brushed draws a fine grain and smears the highlight along it.
`tilt`	`number`	`10`	Maximum tilt in degrees.
`children`	`ReactNode`	—
`className`	`string`	—

About Reflective Card

Reflective Card is a brushed or polished metal card. The specular highlight sits under the pointer, a second reflection slides the other way as the card tilts, and the grain parallaxes beneath it.

Reflective Card is a display component 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 Reflective Card

Premium and black-card offers.
Hardware product pages.
Membership tiers.
Award and badge displays.

How it works

The brushed texture is repeating gradients; highlights are radial gradients driven by pointer position. strength, texture and tilt are props.

Interactive parts are buttons or links with accessible names, decorative layers are hidden from assistive tech, and everything is reachable by keyboard. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.

Customizing Reflective Card

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 strength, texture, tilt live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

strength (number, default 1): 0 to 2. Brightness of the reflection.
texture ("brushed" | "smooth", default "brushed"): Brushed draws a fine grain and smears the highlight along it.
tilt (number, default 10): Maximum tilt in degrees.

The example on this page

Reflective Card: Switch texture to see the highlight stretch along the grain or tighten to a point.

Goes well with Reflective Card

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

Tilt Card: A 3D tilt card for React that leans toward the pointer with a moving glare
Spotlight Card: A React spotlight card: an accent glow follows the pointer across card and border
Sortable List: A drag-to-reorder React list with lifted shadows and keyboard sorting
Card Stack: A swipeable React card stack where the next card rises to meet you
Image Compare: A React before and after image comparison slider you can drag anywhere

Install Reflective Card

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/reflective-card

Reflective Card 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 reflective-card.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

Brushed or polished?: Both. texture switches between brushed metal grain and a smooth polished finish.
How do I install Reflective Card?: Reflective Card is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/reflective-card. It copies reflective-card.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Reflective Card free for commercial use?: Reflective Card 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 Reflective Card 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 Reflective Card?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Reflective Card's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Reflective Card as Markdown · llms.txt