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animata-circular-text

text-effect3dmotion on file

A React text effect that splits a string into individually positioned characters and rotates the full ring with Motion. It ships as a shadcn registry component and relies on motion/react, Tailwind utility classes, the foreground theme token, and the usual cn helper imported through the project alias.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of animata-circular-text at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. This viewport scrolled sideways.
Harness screenshot of animata-circular-text at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of animata-circular-text 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 animata-circular-text
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowflagged at 375
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal66.4 KB (131.8 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 23.67s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/components/animata/text/circular-text.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, editable decorative effect that builds and mounts cleanly in its expected environment, but its narrow-screen overflow needs attention and the animation dependency is substantial for one flourish. It needs a shadcn-style setup before it will work as copied.

Use it if

  • You need a compact rotating label for a badge, hero accent, or decorative callout.
  • Your React app already uses Tailwind and a shadcn-style alias plus cn utility.
  • You want the copy, spin speed, radius, and wrapper styling exposed as props.

Skip it if

  • Your layout must remain overflow-free on narrow mobile screens without component-specific tuning.
  • You want a lightweight text flourish and do not otherwise need the Motion runtime.
  • The rotating words convey essential information that should stay easy to scan.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate its utility classes.

Install

Installation record for animata-circular-text
Declared dependenciesmotion@^12.38.0
Missing on installmotion@^12.38.0
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, install Motion, provide React and Tailwind, define the foreground color token, add an alias that resolves the lib utility import, and supply a cn class-merging helper. Otherwise, replace the alias import and translate the utility classes into your styling system.

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/codse/animata
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-13

Alternatives

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