Install
That writes one file:compositions/components/tracking-in.html.
Variables
Every one of these has a default, so the piece works untouched. Set the ones you want to change on the element:| Variable | Default | Accepts | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
tracking | standard | tight, standard, wide | Multiplies the letter-spacing the timeline drives, so the reveal starts and settles proportionally wider or tighter. |
rise | standard | subtle, standard, bold | Vertical offset the text starts from, which the timeline reads as the start of its travel and eases to zero. |
tone | inherit | inherit, ink, paper, accent | Text colour: inherit keeps the surrounding page colour, ink suits light frames, paper dark ones, accent rides —brand. |
data-variable-values on the element that mounts it. These are the
defaults, so this behaves exactly like the preview above until you change one:
<div
data-composition-id="tracking-in"
data-composition-src="compositions/components/tracking-in.html"
data-variable-values='{"tracking":"standard","rise":"standard","tone":"inherit"}'
></div>
Source
tracking-in.html
tracking-in.html
<!--
Tracking In - letter-spacing reveal.
Add class="hf-tracking-in" to text elements, then animate the CSS variable
from wide tracking to the final value in your composition timeline.
Variables. The script reads each one, falls back to the declared default on
anything missing or unrecognised, and writes the result as a custom property
on the document root, which every element carrying the class inherits. The
timeline recipe below is untouched by them: it keeps driving one tracking
value and one opacity, and these decide how wide that tracking reads, where
the text starts, and what colour it settles in.
- tracking (tight | standard | wide, default standard): multiplies the
letter-spacing the timeline drives. It scales the whole curve, so the
reveal starts proportionally wider or tighter and settles the same way.
tight is 0.6 of the shipped spacing, wide is 1.8 of it.
- rise (subtle | standard | bold, default standard): the vertical offset
the text starts from, which the timeline reads as the start of its
travel and eases to zero. subtle is 4px, standard the shipped 8px, bold
18px.
- tone (inherit | ink | paper | accent, default inherit): text colour.
inherit leaves the surrounding page colour alone, ink is near-black for
light frames, paper near-white for dark ones, accent rides --brand.
The class starts at opacity 0, so the colour only becomes visible once
the timeline reveals the text.
On every default the result is identical to the original: text at the page
colour rising 8px into place out of 0.28em tracking.
-->
<style
data-composition-variables='[
{ "id": "tracking", "type": "enum", "role": "style", "label": "Tracking", "description": "Multiplies the letter-spacing the timeline drives, so the reveal starts and settles proportionally wider or tighter.", "default": "standard", "options": [{ "value": "tight", "label": "Tight" }, { "value": "standard", "label": "Standard" }, { "value": "wide", "label": "Wide" }] },
{ "id": "rise", "type": "enum", "role": "motion", "label": "Rise", "description": "Vertical offset the text starts from, which the timeline reads as the start of its travel and eases to zero.", "default": "standard", "options": [{ "value": "subtle", "label": "Subtle" }, { "value": "standard", "label": "Standard" }, { "value": "bold", "label": "Bold" }] },
{ "id": "tone", "type": "enum", "role": "style", "label": "Tone", "description": "Text colour: inherit keeps the surrounding page colour, ink suits light frames, paper dark ones, accent rides --brand.", "default": "inherit", "options": [{ "value": "inherit", "label": "Inherit" }, { "value": "ink", "label": "Ink" }, { "value": "paper", "label": "Paper" }, { "value": "accent", "label": "Accent" }] }
]'
>
.hf-tracking-in {
opacity: 0;
color: var(--hf-tracking-color, inherit);
letter-spacing: calc(var(--hf-tracking-value, 0.28em) * var(--hf-tracking-reach, 1));
transform: translateY(var(--hf-tracking-y, 8px));
will-change: opacity, letter-spacing, transform;
}
</style>
<script>
(function () {
"use strict";
var vars =
window.__hyperframes && window.__hyperframes.getVariables
? window.__hyperframes.getVariables()
: {};
// Unrecognised overrides return to their declared defaults.
var reaches = { tight: 0.6, standard: 1, wide: 1.8 };
var rises = { subtle: "4px", standard: "8px", bold: "18px" };
var tones = {
inherit: "inherit",
ink: "#18181b",
paper: "#fafafa",
accent: "var(--brand, #34d399)",
};
function pick(table, value, fallback) {
return Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(table, value) ? value : fallback;
}
var reach = reaches[pick(reaches, vars.tracking, "standard")];
var rise = rises[pick(rises, vars.rise, "standard")];
var tone = tones[pick(tones, vars.tone, "inherit")];
// The class is applied to arbitrary host elements, so the resolved values
// ride the document root and inherit down to every one of them.
var host = document.documentElement;
host.style.setProperty("--hf-tracking-reach", String(reach));
host.style.setProperty("--hf-tracking-y", rise);
host.style.setProperty("--hf-tracking-color", tone);
})();
</script>
<!--
Timeline integration:
tl.to(".hf-tracking-in", {
opacity: 1,
"--hf-tracking-value": "0.02em",
y: 0,
duration: 0.9,
ease: "power3.out",
stagger: 0.1,
}, startTime);
-->
Usage
Opencompositions/components/tracking-in.html and paste its contents into your composition. See the comment header in the file for detailed instructions.
Tagged motion-primitive text reveal typography.