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magicui-text-reveal

text-effect3dmotion on file

A client-side React text effect shipped as a shadcn registry component. It creates a tall sticky scroll section and uses Motion scroll progress to reveal plain-string content word by word. It depends on Motion, Tailwind utility classes, and the shadcn-style cn helper backed by clsx and tailwind-merge.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-reveal at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-reveal at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of magicui-text-reveal 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 magicui-text-reveal
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious1
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal72.8 KB (138.3 KB build, 65.5 KB baseline)
Bare modeFAIL
Provider requiredNO
Demo usedwritten from the component source API

What the harness recorded

BARE BUILD

✗ Build failed in 1.58s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>re-2358630a5621/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/text-reveal.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>re-2358630a5621/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused choice for scroll-led statement sections, but it needs a shadcn-style setup and should not be dropped into a bare React project unchanged. Fix the faded text contrast and add a reduced-motion treatment before production use.

Use it if

  • You want a long-form headline or statement to reveal as the reader scrolls through a dedicated section.
  • Your React app already uses Tailwind and a shadcn-compatible utility helper.
  • The content can remain a plain string without links, emphasis, or nested markup.

Skip it if

  • You need inline links, styled phrases, localization markup, or other rich children inside the text.
  • You cannot dedicate a tall scroll section to a short block of copy.
  • You need compliant contrast without revising the faded word styling.
  • You require a built-in reduced-motion alternative or want to avoid adding Motion.

Install

Installation record for magicui-text-reveal
Declared dependenciesmotion, 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 Motion, Tailwind, clsx, and tailwind-merge; create the cn utility and configure the at-sign source alias, or replace that import with your own class merger. Ensure the file runs as a client component and provide a reduced-motion variant.

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/magicuidesign/magicui
License
MIT
Record published
2026-08-17

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.