Measured entry

clay-card

cardclaymorphismfirst party

A self-contained React card with a claymorphism surface, inset shadows, a decorative emoji accent, and slots for an eyebrow, title, and body content. It ships as a single JSX component with no third-party package imports, but its appearance depends on Tailwind CSS utilities and arbitrary-value support.

Specimen
Harness screenshot of clay-card at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of clay-card at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of clay-card 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 clay-card
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious1
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal18.3 KB (83.7 KB build, 65.4 KB baseline)
Bare modeOK
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

Verdict

A focused, dependency-light presentational card that builds and mounts cleanly across the tested layouts. It is ready for playful marketing surfaces, but the flagged eyebrow contrast needs correction before production use, and the fixed visual treatment offers little structural flexibility.

Use it if

  • You need a compact editorial or promotional card with a playful claymorphism treatment.
  • Your React project already compiles Tailwind utility classes and arbitrary values.
  • You want configurable copy and an accent while keeping the layout intentionally opinionated.

Skip it if

  • Your interface calls for a restrained, neutral, or enterprise visual language.
  • You need interactive card behavior such as links, actions, selection, or expandable content out of the box.
  • You cannot review and adjust the eyebrow color contrast before release.
  • Your project does not use Tailwind and you do not want to translate the styling into CSS.

Install

Installation record for clay-card
Declared dependenciesnone declared
Missing on installnone
Bare installbuilds and mounts without the shadcn-style helpers
Providerno provider required in the harness

First-party component from the sir-originals set. In a non-shadcn project, add the component to a React JSX codebase and ensure Tailwind scans its file and supports the arbitrary utility values it uses. No provider or additional package is required. Without Tailwind, recreate the utility styling in your own CSS and raise the eyebrow text contrast.

Source and credit

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Author repository

mrkeyoor/sir-originals
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-13

Alternatives

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