Can warp text run without hover?

Yes. Set trigger to always and waves keep travelling through the word.

How do I install Warp Text?

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

Is Warp Text free for commercial use?

Warp 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 Warp 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 Warp Text?

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

Warp Text

A wave of skew and scale travels through the letters of a word, once per hover or continuously.

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

Examples

Warp Text

API reference

Prop	Type	Default	Description
`text`	`string`	—
`strength`	`number`	`1`	Size of the distortion, 0 to 2.
`speed`	`number`	`1`
`trigger`	`"hover" \| "always"`	`"hover"`
`width`	`number`	`2.2`	Width of the wave in letters.
`className`	`string`	—

About Warp Text

Warp Text sends a wave of skew and scale through a word's letters, once per hover or continuously. It feels like the word is made of jelly.

Warp 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 Warp Text

Hover headlines.
Music and event brands.
Playful buttons.
Poster typography.

How it works

A wave position travels along the letters and each letter is skewed and scaled by its distance from it. strength, speed and width are props.

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 Warp 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, strength, speed, trigger live, and the Code tab updates to match, so the snippet you copy already carries your values.

text (string).
strength (number, default 1): Size of the distortion, 0 to 2.
speed (number, default 1).
trigger ("hover" | "always", default "hover").
width (number, default 2.2): Width of the wave in letters.

Goes well with Warp 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 Warp Text

npx shadcn@latest add @charcoal/warp-text

Warp 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 warp-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 warp text run without hover?: Yes. Set trigger to always and waves keep travelling through the word.
How do I install Warp Text?: Warp 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/warp-text. It copies warp-text.tsx into components/ui and installs motion, clsx, tailwind-merge.
Is Warp Text free for commercial use?: Warp 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 Warp 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 Warp Text?: Yes. Connect the Charcoal UI MCP server (https://charcoalui.com/mcp) to Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client; get_component returns Warp Text's props and get_install_command returns the exact command.

Warp Text as Markdown · llms.txt