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  27. 27Tailwind Frosted Glass Intensify Card with Deepening Backdrop Blur
  28. 28Tailwind Blueprint Reveal Card with Circular clip-path Wipe
  29. 29Tailwind Cursor-Anchored Shockwave Ripple Card
  30. 30Tailwind Color-Burn Ignition Card with Grayscale-to-Fire Hover
  31. 31Tailwind Prismatic Light Sweep Card with Screen Blend Bar
  32. 32Tailwind Book Cover Open Card with Hinged 3D Rotation
  33. 33Tailwind Drifting Aurora Ribbons Card with Blurred Gradient Bands
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Tailwind Color-Burn Ignition Card with Grayscale-to-Fire Hover

A BBQ card that sits grey and dim until hover, then ignites: the grayscale filter releases, a color-burn fire layer rises from below, and screen-blended embers fade in. Three stacked state changes on one trigger, all utilities.

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The code

<section class="tch-30 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch30-bg font-tch30-sans p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[330px] h-[440px] rounded-[14px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-tch30-card grayscale-80 brightness-75 transition-[filter,box-shadow] duration-600 hover:grayscale-0 hover:brightness-100 hover:shadow-[0_0_60px_rgb(255_90_20/0.4)] focus-visible:grayscale-0 focus-visible:brightness-100 focus-visible:outline-3 focus-visible:outline-tch30-flame focus-visible:outline-offset-4 motion-reduce:transition-none">
    <div class="absolute inset-0 bg-[linear-gradient(160deg,#4a4a52,#1c1c20)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-1 pointer-events-none opacity-0 translate-y-1/5 mix-blend-color-burn transition-[opacity,translate] duration-600 group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:translate-y-0 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:translate-y-0 bg-[radial-gradient(circle_at_50%_100%,#ff7a18,#ff2d00_40%,#8a0e00_70%,transparent_90%)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-2 pointer-events-none opacity-0 mix-blend-screen transition-opacity duration-600 delay-100 group-hover:opacity-70 group-focus-visible:opacity-70 bg-[radial-gradient(#ffcf6b_1px,transparent_1.5px),radial-gradient(#ff8a3c_1px,transparent_1.5px)] bg-[length:60px_60px,90px_90px] bg-[position:0_0,30px_40px]"></div>
    <div class="relative z-3 h-full p-[2.4rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch30-ink">
      <span class="text-[0.72rem] tracking-[0.25em] uppercase text-tch30-tag">BBQ · Texas Style</span>
      <h2 class="font-tch30-display font-extrabold text-[3.6rem] leading-[0.82] uppercase">Low &amp;<br>Slow</h2>
      <p class="text-[0.86rem] leading-[1.6] text-tch30-body">Sixteen hours over post oak. Hover to bring the coals back to life.</p>
    </div>
  </article>
</section>
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tch30-bg: #100804;
  --color-tch30-bg: oklch(0.14 0.02 45);
  --color-tch30-card: #1a1a1a;
  --color-tch30-card: oklch(0.2 0 0);
  --color-tch30-ink: #f3ece4;
  --color-tch30-ink: oklch(0.94 0.01 70);
  --color-tch30-body: #d8cabc;
  --color-tch30-body: oklch(0.84 0.02 70);
  --color-tch30-tag: #ffb27a;
  --color-tch30-tag: oklch(0.82 0.11 55);
  --color-tch30-flame: #ff5a14;
  --color-tch30-flame: oklch(0.68 0.2 42);
  --font-tch30-sans: 'Barlow', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch30-display: 'Big Shoulders Display', system-ui, sans-serif;
}

.tch-30 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}

Setup — do this once per project

Skip this if your project already runs Tailwind v4.

1Load Tailwind
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4"></script>

Compiles in the browser — perfect for a CodePen or a quick test, not for production.

2Add the stylesheetRequiredthe @theme block is what makes the custom utilities exist
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tch30-bg: #100804;
  --color-tch30-bg: oklch(0.14 0.02 45);
  --color-tch30-card: #1a1a1a;
  --color-tch30-card: oklch(0.2 0 0);
  --color-tch30-ink: #f3ece4;
  --color-tch30-ink: oklch(0.94 0.01 70);
  --color-tch30-body: #d8cabc;
  --color-tch30-body: oklch(0.84 0.02 70);
  --color-tch30-tag: #ffb27a;
  --color-tch30-tag: oklch(0.82 0.11 55);
  --color-tch30-flame: #ff5a14;
  --color-tch30-flame: oklch(0.68 0.2 42);
  --font-tch30-sans: 'Barlow', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch30-display: 'Big Shoulders Display', system-ui, sans-serif;
}

.tch-30 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}
3Fonts used by this demooptional — skip if you have your own type stack
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Big+Shoulders+Display:wght@600;800&family=Barlow:wght@400;500&display=swap">

What changed in the port

Which parts became utilities, which stayed CSS, and why.

  • Filters on the card and blend modes on its children is a powerful pairing: grayscale-80 governs the whole subtree, so the layers inside need no state of their own beyond opacity.
  • bg-[position:0_0,30px_40px] is the arbitrary form of a two-value background-position, which no utility covers — and the comma survives inside the brackets untouched.
  • UI change from the CSS original: focusable card, ignition on focus-visible:, and the fire layer now also slides on translate rather than the legacy transform shorthand, so it composes with v4's split transform utilities.
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Demo: Tailwind Color-Burn Ignition Card with Grayscale-to-Fire Hover
Source: https://codefronts.com/motion/tailwind-css-card-hover-effects/tailwind-color-burn-ignition-card/

A BBQ card that sits grey and dim until hover, then ignites: the grayscale filter releases, a color-burn fire layer rises from below, and screen-blended embers fade in. Three stacked state changes on one trigger, all utilities.
## HTML
```html
<section class="tch-30 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch30-bg font-tch30-sans p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[330px] h-[440px] rounded-[14px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-tch30-card grayscale-80 brightness-75 transition-[filter,box-shadow] duration-600 hover:grayscale-0 hover:brightness-100 hover:shadow-[0_0_60px_rgb(255_90_20/0.4)] focus-visible:grayscale-0 focus-visible:brightness-100 focus-visible:outline-3 focus-visible:outline-tch30-flame focus-visible:outline-offset-4 motion-reduce:transition-none">
    <div class="absolute inset-0 bg-[linear-gradient(160deg,#4a4a52,#1c1c20)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-1 pointer-events-none opacity-0 translate-y-1/5 mix-blend-color-burn transition-[opacity,translate] duration-600 group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:translate-y-0 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 group-focus-visible:translate-y-0 bg-[radial-gradient(circle_at_50%_100%,#ff7a18,#ff2d00_40%,#8a0e00_70%,transparent_90%)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-2 pointer-events-none opacity-0 mix-blend-screen transition-opacity duration-600 delay-100 group-hover:opacity-70 group-focus-visible:opacity-70 bg-[radial-gradient(#ffcf6b_1px,transparent_1.5px),radial-gradient(#ff8a3c_1px,transparent_1.5px)] bg-[length:60px_60px,90px_90px] bg-[position:0_0,30px_40px]"></div>
    <div class="relative z-3 h-full p-[2.4rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch30-ink">
      <span class="text-[0.72rem] tracking-[0.25em] uppercase text-tch30-tag">BBQ · Texas Style</span>
      <h2 class="font-tch30-display font-extrabold text-[3.6rem] leading-[0.82] uppercase">Low &amp;<br>Slow</h2>
      <p class="text-[0.86rem] leading-[1.6] text-tch30-body">Sixteen hours over post oak. Hover to bring the coals back to life.</p>
    </div>
  </article>
</section>
```
## CSS
```css
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tch30-bg: #100804;
  --color-tch30-bg: oklch(0.14 0.02 45);
  --color-tch30-card: #1a1a1a;
  --color-tch30-card: oklch(0.2 0 0);
  --color-tch30-ink: #f3ece4;
  --color-tch30-ink: oklch(0.94 0.01 70);
  --color-tch30-body: #d8cabc;
  --color-tch30-body: oklch(0.84 0.02 70);
  --color-tch30-tag: #ffb27a;
  --color-tch30-tag: oklch(0.82 0.11 55);
  --color-tch30-flame: #ff5a14;
  --color-tch30-flame: oklch(0.68 0.2 42);
  --font-tch30-sans: 'Barlow', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch30-display: 'Big Shoulders Display', system-ui, sans-serif;
}

.tch-30 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}
```

How this works

The filter carries the before-and-after. At rest the entire card is 80% desaturated and dimmed to 75% brightness — cold coals. Hover releases both, and because filter applies to the whole subtree, every layer inside brightens together. That is why the card reads as igniting rather than as gaining an overlay.

color-burn intensifies, it does not cover. The fire gradient blends into the card's grey face by increasing contrast and dropping luminance, which produces a deep ember red no flat overlay achieves. It also slides up 20% into place, so the heat rises.

Embers are two dot grids. Radial-gradient dots at 60px and 90px spacing, offset from each other, blended with screen so only the bright pixels survive.

Make it yours

  • Burn hue: the fire gradient's stops — oranges read as coals, cyan reads as a shadow cast.
  • Blend mode: multiply for straight darkening, hard-light for high drama.
  • Rest state: grayscale-80 is a dramatic before; grayscale-40 is a subtler dim.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • mix-blend-mode needs an opaque parent background to blend against.
  • The burn darkens everything, body copy included — check contrast in the lit state, which is the one people read.
  • color-burn has small gamma differences between Firefox and Chromium; the effect survives, the exact hue shifts a shade.
  • Both overlay layers need pointer-events-none.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
111+16.4+128+111+

mix-blend-mode and CSS filters are universally supported; gamma differences in color-burn are subtle. The floor is Tailwind v4's sheet.

Techniques used in this demo

Utilitiesfirst-class utility or variant

mix-blend-modetw ↗transitionstw ↗transition delaytw ↗prefers-reduced-motiontw ↗

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