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  2. 02Tailwind Glowing Gradient & Glassmorphic Border Card
  3. 03Tailwind Image Zoom Card with Slide-Up Content Reveal
  4. 04Tailwind 3D Flip Card (Front to Back) with backface-visibility
  5. 05Tailwind Sibling De-emphasis Pricing Grid with has-hover
  6. 06Tailwind Minimalist Elevation Card with Layered Dynamic Shadows
  7. 07Tailwind Elastic Lift Card with Spring Cubic-Bezier
  8. 08Tailwind Animated Conic Gradient Border Card with @property
  9. 09Tailwind Stacked Layer Reveal Card (Fanned Risograph Deck)
  10. 10Tailwind Holographic Foil Shimmer Card with mix-blend-mode
  11. 11Tailwind Curtain Reveal Card (Parting Velvet Halves)
  12. 12Tailwind Corner Peel Card with clip-path Triangles
  13. 13Tailwind Neon Sign Card with Layered Text-Shadow Glow
  14. 14Tailwind CRT Scanline Terminal Card with Sweeping Beam
  15. 15Tailwind Depth Parallax Landscape Card with Layer Multipliers
  16. 16Tailwind Cursor Spotlight Card with Masked Border Highlight
  17. 17Tailwind 3D Tilt Product Card with Specular Glare
  18. 18Tailwind Slide-Up Panel Card with Peek Header Swap
  19. 19Tailwind Credit Card Flip with Magnetic Strip & CVV
  20. 20Tailwind RGB Channel-Split Glitch Card
  21. 21Tailwind Rotating Conic Aura Card with Blurred Gradient Bloom
  22. 22Tailwind Blob-to-Rectangle Border Morph Card
  23. 23Tailwind Magnetic Float Orb Card with Pointer Attraction
  24. 24Tailwind Typewriter Reveal Card with Steps Animation & Caret
  25. 25Tailwind Magazine Overlay Slide Card (Full-Face Panel Takeover)
  26. 26Tailwind Breathing Film Grain Card with SVG Turbulence Noise
  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 Prismatic Light Sweep Card with Screen Blend Bar

A soft rainbow bar travels diagonally across an optics-lab card, blurred and screen-blended so it reads as light refracting through coated glass. The sweep is one rotated, blurred element animating a single left value — the simplest possible implementation of the most expensive-looking effect here.

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The code

<section class="tch-31 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch31-bg font-tch31-sans p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[340px] h-[440px] rounded-[20px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-[linear-gradient(160deg,#14141f,#0a0a12)] border border-white/7 focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-tch31-acc focus-visible:outline-offset-4">
    <div class="absolute -top-3/5 -left-[120%] w-3/5 h-[220%] z-1 pointer-events-none rotate-[22deg] blur-[8px] mix-blend-screen transition-[left] duration-700 ease-[cubic-bezier(0.4,0,0.2,1)] group-hover:left-[160%] group-focus-visible:left-[160%] motion-reduce:transition-none bg-[linear-gradient(90deg,transparent,rgb(255_0_128/0.5),rgb(255_200_0/0.5),rgb(0_255_170/0.5),rgb(0_170_255/0.5),rgb(180_80_255/0.5),transparent)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-1 pointer-events-none bg-[repeating-linear-gradient(115deg,transparent_0_40px,rgb(255_255_255/0.015)_40px_41px)]"></div>
    <div class="relative z-2 h-full p-[2.4rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch31-ink">
      <span class="font-tch31-mono text-[0.72rem] tracking-[0.22em] uppercase text-tch31-mut">Optics Lab</span>
      <h2 class="font-extrabold text-[2.5rem] leading-none">Refraction<br>No. 9</h2>
      <p class="text-[0.86rem] leading-[1.6] text-tch31-body">A coated-glass installation. Light enters white and leaves as a spectrum sweeping the wall.</p>
      <div class="flex gap-6 font-tch31-mono text-[0.74rem] text-tch31-mut">
        <span><b class="block text-[1.1rem] text-tch31-ink">540nm</b>peak</span>
        <span><b class="block text-[1.1rem] text-tch31-ink">1.52</b>index</span>
      </div>
    </div>
  </article>
</section>
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tch31-bg: #06060c;
  --color-tch31-bg: oklch(0.09 0.008 285);
  --color-tch31-ink: #eef0f7;
  --color-tch31-ink: oklch(0.95 0.005 275);
  --color-tch31-body: #a3a7bd;
  --color-tch31-body: oklch(0.72 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-mut: #8b8fa6;
  --color-tch31-mut: oklch(0.63 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-acc: #6ad6ff;
  --color-tch31-acc: oklch(0.83 0.12 225);
  --font-tch31-sans: 'Sora', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch31-mono: 'Geist Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tch-31 {
  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-tch31-bg: #06060c;
  --color-tch31-bg: oklch(0.09 0.008 285);
  --color-tch31-ink: #eef0f7;
  --color-tch31-ink: oklch(0.95 0.005 275);
  --color-tch31-body: #a3a7bd;
  --color-tch31-body: oklch(0.72 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-mut: #8b8fa6;
  --color-tch31-mut: oklch(0.63 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-acc: #6ad6ff;
  --color-tch31-acc: oklch(0.83 0.12 225);
  --font-tch31-sans: 'Sora', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch31-mono: 'Geist Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tch-31 {
  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=Sora:wght@400;600;800&family=Geist+Mono:wght@400;500&display=swap">

What changed in the port

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

  • A transition rather than an animation is the right call for a one-pass reflection, and it ports to a single group-hover:left-[160%] — no keyframes, no @theme animation entry.
  • The negative fractional positions (-top-3/5, -left-[120%]) are v4 utilities doing work that used to need arbitrary properties.
  • UI change from the CSS original: focusable card with a ring, sweep fires on group-focus-visible:, and the spec figures use a nested block utility instead of a bare <b> style rule.
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Demo: Tailwind Prismatic Light Sweep Card with Screen Blend Bar
Source: https://codefronts.com/motion/tailwind-css-card-hover-effects/tailwind-prismatic-light-sweep-card/

A soft rainbow bar travels diagonally across an optics-lab card, blurred and screen-blended so it reads as light refracting through coated glass. The sweep is one rotated, blurred element animating a single left value &mdash; the simplest possible implementation of the most expensive-looking effect here.
## HTML
```html
<section class="tch-31 w-full min-h-svh grid place-items-center bg-tch31-bg font-tch31-sans p-8">
  <article tabindex="0" class="group relative w-[340px] h-[440px] rounded-[20px] overflow-hidden cursor-pointer outline-none bg-[linear-gradient(160deg,#14141f,#0a0a12)] border border-white/7 focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-tch31-acc focus-visible:outline-offset-4">
    <div class="absolute -top-3/5 -left-[120%] w-3/5 h-[220%] z-1 pointer-events-none rotate-[22deg] blur-[8px] mix-blend-screen transition-[left] duration-700 ease-[cubic-bezier(0.4,0,0.2,1)] group-hover:left-[160%] group-focus-visible:left-[160%] motion-reduce:transition-none bg-[linear-gradient(90deg,transparent,rgb(255_0_128/0.5),rgb(255_200_0/0.5),rgb(0_255_170/0.5),rgb(0_170_255/0.5),rgb(180_80_255/0.5),transparent)]"></div>
    <div class="absolute inset-0 z-1 pointer-events-none bg-[repeating-linear-gradient(115deg,transparent_0_40px,rgb(255_255_255/0.015)_40px_41px)]"></div>
    <div class="relative z-2 h-full p-[2.4rem] flex flex-col justify-between text-tch31-ink">
      <span class="font-tch31-mono text-[0.72rem] tracking-[0.22em] uppercase text-tch31-mut">Optics Lab</span>
      <h2 class="font-extrabold text-[2.5rem] leading-none">Refraction<br>No. 9</h2>
      <p class="text-[0.86rem] leading-[1.6] text-tch31-body">A coated-glass installation. Light enters white and leaves as a spectrum sweeping the wall.</p>
      <div class="flex gap-6 font-tch31-mono text-[0.74rem] text-tch31-mut">
        <span><b class="block text-[1.1rem] text-tch31-ink">540nm</b>peak</span>
        <span><b class="block text-[1.1rem] text-tch31-ink">1.52</b>index</span>
      </div>
    </div>
  </article>
</section>
```
## CSS
```css
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tch31-bg: #06060c;
  --color-tch31-bg: oklch(0.09 0.008 285);
  --color-tch31-ink: #eef0f7;
  --color-tch31-ink: oklch(0.95 0.005 275);
  --color-tch31-body: #a3a7bd;
  --color-tch31-body: oklch(0.72 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-mut: #8b8fa6;
  --color-tch31-mut: oklch(0.63 0.02 280);
  --color-tch31-acc: #6ad6ff;
  --color-tch31-acc: oklch(0.83 0.12 225);
  --font-tch31-sans: 'Sora', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tch31-mono: 'Geist Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tch-31 {
  width: 100%;
  min-height: 100svh;
}
```

How this works

One element, one property. The bar is a tall rotated rectangle parked off the left edge. Hover moves its left to past the right edge; the 700ms transition does the rest. Because it is a transition rather than an infinite animation, the light passes once and stays gone until you leave and return — which is what a reflection does.

Blur plus screen blend is the material. Unblurred, the bar is a rainbow rectangle. At blur-[8px] with mix-blend-screen it only brightens what it crosses, and the colour arrives as a wash rather than a shape.

The striations do the rest. A 1px repeating gradient at 1.5% opacity, angled with the sweep, suggests a coated surface for almost nothing.

Make it yours

  • Sweep angle: rotate-[22deg] reads as light from above; steeper angles read as a faster pass.
  • Bar width and blur together control softness — a narrow, sharp bar reads as a laser rather than refraction.
  • Speed: 700ms is a slow pass; 400ms reads as a glint.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • Animating left is a layout property, but the bar is absolutely positioned inside an overflow-hidden card and has no siblings to push — the exception, not a licence.
  • mix-blend-screen needs an opaque card background; on transparency the bar shows raw.
  • Keep peak opacity around 0.5 per colour stop or the title washes out as the light crosses it.
  • motion-reduce: removes the transition, so the bar simply never travels — acceptable here because the card is complete without it.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
111+16.4+128+111+

mix-blend-mode, filters and transitions are universally supported; the floor is Tailwind v4's generated sheet.

Techniques used in this demo

Utilitiesfirst-class utility or variant

mix-blend-modetw ↗linear gradienttw ↗transitionstw ↗prefers-reduced-motiontw ↗

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