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Text Effects

Weight Wave

A bell-curve wave of font-weight travels left-to-right across the word WEIGHT; crest letters bulge bold, lift slightly, and warm to gold glow.

cssmedium complexitymoderate motionmobile-ready

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When to use it

Hero or section titles needing ambient kinetic motion. Brand name displays on dark backgrounds.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded dark canvas). Words longer than ~8 characters where wave shape becomes unclear.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change TEXT to "MOTION", slow the wave by setting SPEED to 1.2, and shift the accent color to electric blue by replacing 245,215,110 with 100,180,255. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • word content (TEXT variable)
  • wave speed (SPEED=2.05)
  • font weight range (MIN=130, MAX=860)
  • bell curve width (0.62 sigma)
  • accent color (245,215,110 gold)
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • prefers-reduced-motion guard and CSS fallback
  • visibilitychange pause with banked elapsed time
  • IIFE wrapper
  • bell() function shaping the weight envelope
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Requires Inter variable font from Google Fonts — offline use degrades to system font with no weight axis
  • Background color hardcoded to dark navy in CSS
  • No pointer or click interaction — purely autonomous

typographyvariable-fontwavetext-animationglowloop

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