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fancy-letter-3d-swap

text-effect3dmotion on file

A client-side React text effect that splits copy into grapheme-aware characters and rotates each glyph between two faces on hover. It ships as shadcn registry source, uses Motion for staggered animation, and expects Tailwind utility classes plus a local cn helper imported through the usual project alias.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of fancy-letter-3d-swap at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of fancy-letter-3d-swap at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of fancy-letter-3d-swap 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 fancy-letter-3d-swap
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal49.4 KB (114.8 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 22.73s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/fancy/text/letter-3d-swap.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, configurable choice for short decorative copy, with clean verified behavior in the prepared harness. It is hover-led and needs a shadcn-style setup before it can build or mount, so teams outside that ecosystem should budget for a small integration pass.

Use it if

  • You want a hover flourish for a short headline, label, or promotional phrase.
  • Your project already uses Motion and shadcn-style Tailwind conventions.
  • You need control over rotation direction, stagger order, transition, and face styling.

Skip it if

  • The effect must activate equally well from touch, keyboard focus, or reduced-motion preferences without modification.
  • You are animating long passages where creating separate elements for every character is excessive.
  • You want to avoid adding Motion or adapting project-specific Tailwind utilities and aliases.

Install

Installation record for fancy-letter-3d-swap
Declared dependenciesmotion
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, install Motion, provide a cn class-merging helper, replace or configure the project alias used by that import, and supply Tailwind support for the layout, accessibility, backface, and transform utilities. Keep it in a client-rendered React boundary.

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/danielpetho/fancy
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.