Scramble Text
Characters cycle through glyphs before locking in, left to right.
- Category: Text
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Scramble Text
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
text | string | — | |
duration | number | 0.8 | |
trigger | "mount" | "hover" | "mount" | |
characters | string | — |
About Scramble Text
Scramble Text cycles each character through random glyphs before it locks into place, left to right, like a decoding terminal. It runs on mount or on hover.
Scramble Text is a text animation 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 Scramble Text
- Tech and security brands.
- Hacker-style hero headlines.
- Revealing codes, numbers or names.
- Hover effects on nav links.
How it works
Each character resolves after a time proportional to its position, cycling glyphs from your character set until then. The real text stays in the DOM, so search engines index it and screen readers read it once, cleanly.
The real text stays in the page for screen readers and search engines; the animated letters are decorative copies marked aria-hidden. With prefers-reduced-motion on, it holds still or settles instantly instead of animating.
Customizing Scramble Text
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, trigger live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.
- text (string).
- duration (number, default 0.8).
- trigger ("mount" | "hover", default "mount").
- characters (string).
Goes well with Scramble Text
These text pieces share its tokens and motion language, so they sit together on one page without clashing.
- Rotating Text: React rotating text that rolls between words letter by letter and resizes smoothly
- Highlight Text: React highlight text: a marker sweep, hand-drawn underline or scribbled circle on scroll
- Text Morph: React text morph: shared letters glide to new spots while the rest blur in and out
- Split Flap: A React split-flap display: every cell flips through the drum to its letter
- Scroll Text: React scroll text: words light up one by one as the paragraph scrolls by
Install Scramble Text
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/scramble-textScramble Text 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 scramble-text.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 Scramble Text?
- Scramble Text is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/scramble-text. It copies scramble-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Scramble Text free for commercial use?
- Scramble Text 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 Scramble Text 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 Scramble Text?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Scramble Text's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.