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Kinetic Typography

Glitch RGB Split

Red and cyan pseudo-element copies of GLITCH drift and randomly snap with clipped displacement, simulating a CRT RGB-split glitch on near-black.

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When to use it

Dark hero sections, cyberpunk or tech aesthetics, error/system-failure themed UIs, demo reels.

When not to

Light backgrounds (hardcoded #080808), readable body text contexts, or reduced-motion environments where the effect is fully suppressed.

Working with an AI agent

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

Change the word to 'ERROR', set red channel to #ff6600 and cyan to #00ffcc, increase burst probability from 0.06 to 0.12 for more frequent glitch spikes.

Safe to edit

  • word content (data-t attribute + inner text)
  • burst probability (Math.random()<0.06)
  • channel colors (#ff003c / #00eaff)
  • drift amplitude (sin/cos multiplier *2)
  • clip displacement range (Math.random()*60 / *30)

Keep intact

  • IIFE wrapper
  • prefers-reduced-motion guard
  • visibilitychange pause/resume
  • CSS custom properties feeding pseudo-element transforms

Known limitations

  • Background color hardcoded in both CSS (#080808) and pseudo-element background — must change in two places
  • Both channels share the same --clip value so they clip identically during bursts

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