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Flickering Text

Failing-fluorescent flicker effect with random per-character brightness drops and the occasional rapid blink for React applications.

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Type that looks like a dying motel sign or a tired LED — the text holds a steady glow most of the time, but every so often a character drops to half brightness for a frame, or a rapid off-on-off blink rolls through the word. Each character has its own deterministic flicker schedule seeded from its index, so the pattern looks chaotic but renders identically on the server and the client (no hydration mismatches). Three intensity levels — subtle for a quiet ambient flicker, medium for a believable shop-window vibe, wild for full broken-neon. Distinct from a chromatic glitch: this is brightness only, the glyph never moves or splits. Pair it with a dark background and a saturated color for maximum bar-sign energy.

Install with AI

If you've connected the shadcn.io MCP server to Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-ready AI editor, prompt your agent to install this text effect for you — no copy-paste, no CLI:

use shadcnio to install the flickering-text text effect into my project

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