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fancy-scramble-hover

hover-effectdark-futuristicmotion on file

A client-side React text component that scrambles its visible characters on hover, with configurable sequencing, reveal direction, character sets, and styling hooks. It ships as a shadcn registry item, uses Motion for hover events, and expects a shadcn-style cn helper plus Tailwind utility classes.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of fancy-scramble-hover at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of fancy-scramble-hover at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of fancy-scramble-hover 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-scramble-hover
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal67.1 KB (132.5 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 30.96s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/fancy/text/scramble-hover.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, configurable hover effect that builds and mounts cleanly in its intended environment. It needs a shadcn-style setup before it will work in a bare React project, and teams should add keyboard and reduced-motion behavior for broader interaction support.

Use it if

  • You want a short headline, label, or call to action to decode when a pointer hovers over it.
  • Your React interface already uses Motion and shadcn-style component conventions.
  • You need control over reveal order, scramble characters, or styling during the effect.

Skip it if

  • The interaction must work equally well from keyboard focus or touch without further modification.
  • You want to avoid adding Motion for a small decorative text effect.
  • Frequently changing text must be announced accurately to assistive technology, since the hidden accessible text also changes during scrambling.

Install

Installation record for fancy-scramble-hover
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 or replace that import, configure the path alias or use a relative path, and ensure the referenced Tailwind utilities exist. Add focus handling and a reduced-motion fallback if the effect is more than decorative.

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
2026-08-14

Alternatives

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