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Art Nouveau

Border Flourish

Ornamental Art Nouveau border traces itself in gold, green, and rose — whiplash vines draw along all four sides, then buds and leaves bloom into place.

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When to use it

Decorative framing for certificates, menus, invitations, or dark-mode hero cards needing period ornament without external assets.

When not to

Content-heavy layouts where the border competes with inner text. Light backgrounds — the backdrop gradient is hardcoded dark.

Working with an AI agent

Every component ships agent-ready metadata. An example instruction for this one:

Change the primary vine color to deep purple by setting --an08-gold to #8b5cf6, and slow the trace cycle to 9 seconds by editing animation-duration:6.2s on .an08-vine. Theme: dark tokens live in :root, the light variant in :root[data-theme="light"]; ?theme=light or a {type:'forever:theme'} postMessage switches at runtime.

Safe to edit

  • vine colors (--an08-gold, --an08-green, --an08-rose CSS vars)
  • trace duration (6.2s on .an08-vine)
  • stroke widths (2.1 / 1.7 / 1.5)
  • bloom delay offsets (animation-delay on .an08-bud)
  • background gradient stops in .an08-stage
  • theme tokens (:root dark defaults + [data-theme=light] overrides)

Keep intact

  • stroke-dasharray/dashoffset CSS var pattern (--d) for self-drawing effect
  • IIFE wrapper with visibilitychange pause
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard settling static state
  • theme hook (?theme= bootstrap + forever:theme message listener + theme tokens)

Known limitations

  • Light re-theme via the [data-theme=light] token block; catalog bg/accent describe the dark default
  • --d values are approximate path lengths; changing path shapes requires recalculating dasharray

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