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motion-primitives-spinning-text

text-effect3dmotion on file

A client-side React component that arranges a string around a circular path and continuously rotates it. It ships as a shadcn registry TSX file, depends on Motion through motion/react, and expects Tailwind utilities plus a cn helper at the usual @/lib/utils alias.

Specimen
Motion capture of the mounted demo, recorded by the harness. No audio track.
Harness screenshot of motion-primitives-spinning-text at 375 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 375 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of motion-primitives-spinning-text at 768 pixels wide
Harness screenshot at 768 pixels wide. No horizontal overflow recorded.
Harness screenshot of motion-primitives-spinning-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 motion-primitives-spinning-text
BuildOK
MountOK
Console errors0
Uncaught page errors0
Horizontal overflowclean at 375, 768, 1440
Axe critical0
Axe serious0
Axe moderate0
Axe minor0
Gzip marginal66.6 KB (132.0 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 29.09s
error during build:
[vite:load-fallback] Could not load <sandbox>/src/lib/utils (imported by src/cut/spinning-text.tsx): ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '<sandbox>/src/lib/utils'

Verdict

A focused, customizable accent with clean screen-reader fallback and reliable responsive mounting in the prepared harness. It needs a shadcn-style setup because the bare project cannot resolve its shared cn utility. Best adopted where Motion is already present.

Use it if

  • You need a compact orbiting label around an icon, badge, or callout.
  • Your React app already uses Motion and can supply the component with an explicitly sized container.
  • You want control over direction, duration, radius, and animation variants from props.

Skip it if

  • The text is primary reading content rather than a decorative accent.
  • Your product requires reduced-motion behavior without adding your own preference handling.
  • You do not want to bring Motion into the client bundle for a single text effect.
  • Your styling stack does not provide Tailwind utilities or an equivalent screen-reader-only class.

Install

Installation record for motion-primitives-spinning-text
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, configure the @ alias, add a cn class-merging helper at src/lib/utils, and provide equivalents for the relative positioning, absolute centering, inline-block, and screen-reader-only Tailwind classes. Use it from 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/ibelick/motion-primitives
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.