Smoke
Slow, blurred smoke plumes drifting over charcoal. Pure CSS transforms, so it stays cheap.
- Category: Backgrounds
- Licence: Charcoal UI Pro
- Built with: React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, Motion
- Dependencies: motion, clsx, tailwind-merge
Examples
Smoke
API reference
| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
intensity | number | 1 | Opacity multiplier. |
ember | boolean | true | Add a faint warm glow at the base. |
About Smoke
Smoke drifts slow, blurred plumes across a dark section with an optional warm glow at the base. It sets a moody atmosphere for premium and nightlife brands.
Smoke 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 Smoke
- Luxury and premium product heroes.
- Nightlife, music and events.
- Dark pricing sections.
- Film and photography portfolios.
How it works
Plumes are blurred radial shapes animated with transforms only. It is pure CSS, so it costs almost nothing to keep running, and it stops under reduced motion.
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 Smoke
Every prop is documented in the API reference above with its type and default. The ones you will reach for first are listed here.
Style it with className like any other element. It only uses your theme's tokens, so it follows light and dark mode without extra work.
- intensity (number, default 1): Opacity multiplier.
- ember (boolean, default true): Add a faint warm glow at the base.
Goes well with Smoke
Smoke is already composed into 2 ready-made sections, so you can see it in context or install the whole block.
- Hero Ember: Hero section
- Hero Statement: Hero section
- Ember Field: An animated React ember background: glowing embers drift up and flicker as they cool
- 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
- Wave Lines: An animated React wave lines background: layered sine lines drifting sideways
Install Smoke
npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/smokeSmoke 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 smoke.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 Smoke?
- Smoke is part of Charcoal UI Pro. Add the @charcoal registry to components.json with your access token, then run npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/smoke. It copies smoke.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
- Is Smoke free for commercial use?
- Smoke 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 Smoke 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 Smoke?
- Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Smoke's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.