Text Pressure

Letters thicken as the pointer approaches, like pressing into soft type. Needs a variable font.

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

Examples

Text Pressure

API reference

About Text Pressure

Text Pressure thickens letters as the pointer approaches, like pressing into soft type, using a variable font's weight axis. It turns a headline into something you can touch.

Text Pressure 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 Text Pressure

• Interactive hero headlines.
• Type foundries and design studios.
• Experimental portfolios.
• Poster-style pages.

How it works

Each letter's weight eases toward a target based on its distance from the pointer. It needs a variable font such as Geist, and reduced motion keeps the base weight.

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 Text Pressure

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, minWeight, maxWeight, radius live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

• minWeight (number, default 200).
• maxWeight (number, default 800).
• radius (number, default 180).

Goes well with Text Pressure

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 Text Pressure

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/text-pressure

Text Pressure 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 text-pressure.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

Which fonts work with text pressure?

Variable fonts with a weight axis, such as Geist or Inter. Static fonts cannot change weight smoothly.

How do I install Text Pressure?

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

Is Text Pressure free for commercial use?

Text Pressure 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 Text Pressure 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 Text Pressure?

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

Text Pressure as Markdown · llms.txt