Can stroke text fill in after drawing?

Yes. Set fill and the glyphs fill with colour once the stroke has finished drawing.

How do I install Stroke Text?

Stroke 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/stroke-text. It copies stroke-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.

Is Stroke Text free for commercial use?

Stroke 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 Stroke 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 Stroke Text?

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

Stroke Text

Outlined text whose stroke draws itself in, then optionally fills. The glyphs are SVG text, so size, weight and family come from className like any other word.

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

Examples

Stroke Text

Press Replay to draw it again.

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`text`	`string`	—
`strokeWidth`	`number`	`1.5`	Outline thickness in px.
`duration`	`number`	`2`	Seconds for the outline to draw.
`fill`	`boolean`	`true`	Fill the letters once the outline is complete.
`color`	`string`	`"currentColor"`	Stroke and fill colour.
`delay`	`number`	`0`	Seconds before drawing starts.
`className`	`string`	—

About Stroke Text

Stroke Text draws outlined lettering in, stroke by stroke, then optionally fills it. The glyphs are SVG text, so size, weight and family come from className like any other word.

Stroke 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 Stroke Text

Hero titles with a signature reveal.
Logos and wordmarks.
Section dividers.
Event and poster headings.

How it works

The stroke dash offset animates from the measured path length. fill fades the glyph colour in after the draw.

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 Stroke 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, strokeWidth, duration, fill, color live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

text (string).
strokeWidth (number, default 1.5): Outline thickness in px.
duration (number, default 2): Seconds for the outline to draw.
fill (boolean, default true): Fill the letters once the outline is complete.
color (string, default "currentColor"): Stroke and fill colour.
delay (number, default 0): Seconds before drawing starts.

The example on this page

Stroke Text: Press Replay to draw it again.

Goes well with Stroke Text

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

Scramble Text: React scramble text: characters cycle through glyphs before locking in
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

Install Stroke Text

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/stroke-text

Stroke 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 stroke-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

Can stroke text fill in after drawing?: Yes. Set fill and the glyphs fill with colour once the stroke has finished drawing.
How do I install Stroke Text?: Stroke 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/stroke-text. It copies stroke-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Stroke Text free for commercial use?: Stroke 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 Stroke 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 Stroke Text?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Stroke Text's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Stroke Text as Markdown · llms.txt