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8bitcn-badge

badgeskeuomorphism

A pixel-styled wrapper around the shadcn Badge that adds blocky side bars and optional retro typography. It ships as a TSX component plus a retro stylesheet, and expects the shadcn Badge, the cn helper, class-variance-authority, Tailwind utilities, theme color tokens, and a Google-hosted font.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-badge at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-badge at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of 8bitcn-badge at 1440 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 1440 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.

Measured

Every value below was written by the harness on the run that produced the frames above. None of it is derived from the prose.

Harness measurements recorded for 8bitcn-badge
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal31.3 KB (96.7 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 963ms
error during build:
[vite]: Rollup failed to resolve import "class-variance-authority" from "<sandbox>re-5a78655dcc58/src/cut/components/ui/8bit/badge.tsx".

Verdict

Treat this as a failed package in its current form: the build cannot resolve the base shadcn Badge import, and the bare build also lacks the cn utility. It needs a shadcn-style setup before it can compile. Teams unwilling to recreate those conventions should avoid it.

Use it if

  • You already use shadcn components and want status labels that match an arcade or pixel-art interface.
  • You can include the companion retro stylesheet and permit its external font request.
  • You want badge colors to continue using your existing shadcn theme tokens and variants.

Skip it if

  • You need a copy-paste component that builds without shadcn aliases and utilities.
  • Your product forbids externally hosted fonts or needs fully self-contained styling.
  • You need the badge to work before supplying the missing base Badge dependency.
  • You want a neutral label that does not add decorative pixel bars.

Install

Installation record for 8bitcn-badge
Declared dependenciesradix-ui, clsx, tailwind-merge
Missing on installnone
Bare installfails once the shadcn-style helpers are removed, so it needs that setup
Providerno provider required in the harness

In a non-shadcn project, add a compatible base Badge at the expected alias, provide the cn utility and alias mapping, install class-variance-authority, configure Tailwind with the referenced theme colors, and load the included retro stylesheet. Self-host or replace the font if external font loading is not allowed.

Source and credit

This page is a review, not a copy. The component source lives with its author and this site does not republish it. Read the license before you use anything.

Author repository

github.com/TheOrcDev/8bitcn-ui
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-15

Alternatives

Other published entries for the badge pattern, ordered by what they measured: mounts first, then clean axe scans, then bare-mode passes, then the smaller bundle.