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Inertia Text

Drag the entire string and watch it slide with momentum, then settle back to origin via spring physics for React applications.

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Type that behaves like a piece of paper flicked across a table. Press, drag, release — the whole word inherits your gesture's velocity, glides under linear friction until it slows enough to give up, and is then gently pulled back home by an underdamped spring. Velocity is sampled across the last few pointer frames so a quick flick feels different from a slow shove, and pointer capture keeps tracking the gesture even when your cursor leaves the bounding box. Cursor swaps between grab and grabbing for tactile feedback, touchAction is locked off so the experience survives mobile scrolling, and zero React re-renders happen during the physics loop — everything rides motion values and a single requestAnimationFrame. Drop it into a hero, a portfolio cover, a 404, or any moment where you want copy that invites the reader to play.

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 inertia-text text effect into my project

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