Kinetic Typography demo
Kinetic Typography

A dynamic visual style where animated, moving text serves as the primary design element, with bold typography driving the layout for modern landing pages and SaaS.
Category: Typography-Driven
Era: 2020s Modern
Prompt: 17.5 KB · 2349 words
# SYSTEM PROMPT — Build a Complete "Kinetic Typography" Landing Page (Single-Attempt, Production-Ready Specification)

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## 1. ROLE, OBJECTIVE & THEME DEFINITION

**1.1 Role**
You are a Senior Frontend Engineer and Expert UI Designer. You will deliver a complete, production-ready landing page **in a single response, on the first attempt**. Do not ask follow-up questions, do not provide partial code, and do not leave TODOs.

**1.2 Objective**
Build a full landing page for a fictional product — a kinetic typography design tool (suggested brand: **"Typeflow"**). All user-facing copy must be written in **English**, real and on-brand. No lorem ipsum.

**1.3 Theme Definition**
- **Name:** Kinetic Typography
- **Type:** Typographic, Animated, Expressive, Dynamic
- **Era:** 2020s Modern
- **Keywords:** Motion text, animated type, moving letters, dynamic, typing effect, morphing, scroll-triggered text
- **Modes:** Full Light mode **and** Full Dark mode (both mandatory, both fully themed)
- **Core principle:** Text IS the visual element. No raster images anywhere on the page — all visual impact comes from oversized type, motion, gradients, color, and Google Material Symbols icons.

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## 2. STRICT RULES & ARCHITECTURE

**2.1 CSS-First Architecture & Zero Inline CSS**
- All styling lives exclusively in `style.css`. **The `style="..."` attribute is forbidden in the HTML.**
- All design properties, layout rules, and states must be targeted via **class or ID selectors only**.
- HTML must remain clean and semantic; changing the site's look must never require touching the markup.
- **Runtime animation exception:** animation libraries (GSAP) may compose transforms at runtime, but every resting/end state must be class-driven in CSS so the page renders correctly with JavaScript disabled.
- Any element whose flex alignment deviates from `align-items: center` (see 2.4) must include a one-line CSS comment justifying the exception.

**2.2 CSS Variables & Theme Tokens**
Store every visual token in `:root` and override per theme. The following variables are **mandatory and non-negotiable**:

```css
:root { /* LIGHT */
  --bg-primary: #f6f4ee;      /* warm paper, never #ffffff */
  --bg-secondary: #fefefe;
  --text-primary: #14141c;
  --text-secondary: #4f4f5c;
  --primary: #3a2fe0;         /* electric indigo */
  --on-primary: #fefefe;
  --secondary: #c93a17;       /* bold vermillion accent */
  --on-secondary: #fefefe;
  --text-success: #0e7a43;
  --text-error: #bb1f24;
  --border-default: #d8d4c8;
  --border-error: #bb1f24;
  --border-success: #0e7a43;
  --radius-sm: 6px;  --radius-md: 12px; --radius-lg: 20px; --radius-pill: 999px;
  --shadow-sm: 0 1px 2px rgba(20,20,28,.08);
  --shadow-md: 0 10px 30px rgba(20,20,28,.14);
  --spacing-gap: 1.5rem;
  --transition-fast: 150ms;  --transition-normal: 300ms;
  --ease-standard: cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1);
  --ease-out-expo: cubic-bezier(.16,1,.3,1);   /* kinetic reveals */
  --z-dropdown: 100;  --z-modal: 1000;  --z-toast: 1100;
  --font-display: 'Archivo', sans-serif;
  --font-base: 'Inter', sans-serif;
}
```

Dark overrides (identical variable names):

```css
:root.dark {
  --bg-primary: #101014;  --bg-secondary: #1a1a22;
  --text-primary: #f4f2ea;  --text-secondary: #a8a8b8;
  --primary: #8b8cff;  --on-primary: #14141c;
  --secondary: #ff6a3d;  --on-secondary: #14141c;
  --text-success: #3ecf8e;  --text-error: #ff6b6b;
  --border-default: #2a2a35;  --border-error: #ff6b6b;  --border-success: #3ecf8e;
  --shadow-sm: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.5);
  --shadow-md: 0 10px 30px rgba(0,0,0,.6);
}
```

- **Contrast pairing is mandatory in every theme:** light background tokens pair with dark text tokens and vice versa (`--on-primary` flips accordingly, as shown above).
- Additional required fallback for no-JS users: duplicate the dark block inside `@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { :root:not(.light) { … } }` and keep both blocks synchronized.

**2.3 Mandatory Dark Mode Support**
- Dark mode must be fully designed, not inverted as an afterthought.
- **Theme resolution:** `script.js` reads `localStorage` key `'kinetic-theme'`; if absent, fall back to `prefers-color-scheme`; it then always sets `html` class to `dark` or `light`. The choice persists across reloads and survives system-theme changes (listen to `matchMedia` only when no stored preference exists).
- **Visible toggle control** in the header: a button with `aria-pressed` reflecting current state, a dynamic `aria-label` ("Switch to dark theme" / "Switch to light theme"), and two Material Symbols icons (sun/moon) swapped purely via CSS based on the `html.dark` class. No theme change may require HTML restructuring.
- Set `color-scheme` correctly for both themes so scrollbars and form controls match.

**2.4 Flexbox Layout & Mobile-First Alignment**
- Build every layout structure with **Flexbox** (and CSS Grid only where a 2D grid is genuinely needed, e.g., feature/pricing card rows).
- **Every flex container defaults to `align-items: center`** unless a CSS comment justifies an explicit exception (e.g., text stacks inside cards use `align-items: flex-start`).
- Mobile-first: single-column stacks at base, promoting to rows at `min-width: 640px` / `1024px` / `1280px`. Container max-width `1200px`, fluid type via `clamp()`. **No horizontal scrolling at any viewport down to 320px** (add `overflow-x: clip` on `body` as a safety net).

**2.5 Styling Stack**
Use **clean, hand-authored custom CSS organized with native CSS `@layer`** (`@layer reset, tokens, base, components, animations;`). **Explicit exception:** Tailwind is not used in this build — the zero-build custom CSS option is deliberately chosen for portability; do not add any CSS framework.

**2.6 Typography & Icons (Google Fonts Mandatory)**
- Load via Google Fonts `<link>` in `index.html`: `Archivo` with **variable axes** `wdth,wght@62..125,100..900` (display font — enables width/weight morphing) and `Inter` variable `wght@100..900` (body font), plus `Material Symbols Rounded`.
- Bind fonts to `--font-display` and `--font-base`. All Material Symbols icon usage via `<span class="material-symbols-rounded">icon_name</span>` with **valid symbol names only** (e.g., `bolt`, `speed`, `gesture`, `auto_awesome`, `star`, `check`, `expand_more`, `arrow_downward`, `menu`, `close`, `dark_mode`, `light_mode`).
- **Raw inline SVGs and local icon files are forbidden.** No raster images anywhere.

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## 3. KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY ANIMATION SYSTEM

All animations must be **CSS-driven**; JavaScript only toggles classes/attributes and drives GSAP. Animate only `transform`, `opacity`, `filter`, and (for morphing) registered font axes — never layout-triggering properties.

**3.1 Letter-by-Letter Split Reveals**
- A small utility in `script.js` splits designated headlines into per-word wrappers (`.kt-word`) containing per-letter spans (`.kt-letter`), each inside an overflow-hidden line mask. Words stay intact so screen readers read naturally.
- **No inline styles for stagger:** delays are class-driven — the utility assigns incremental classes (`.lt-01` … `.lt-30`); all `transition-delay`/`animation-delay` values are defined in `style.css`.
- Reveal style: letters rise from `translateY(110%)` with slight rotation and blur to resting position, staggered ~35ms, easing `--ease-out-expo`.

**3.2 Typing Effect (`steps()`)**
- Implement a caret-typing subline: text sits fully in the DOM, visually clipped by `width: 0` with `overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap`, animated via `@keyframes` using `steps(N)` to `Nch` (N = exact character count of your final copy — count it and hardcode it) plus a blinking caret (`border-right` with a `steps(1)` blink keyframe).
- Because the full string remains in the DOM, screen readers get the complete sentence instantly.

**3.3 Morphing Text**
- A rotating word component cycles 3 words (e.g., "Move. Matter. Mesmerize.") using stacked absolutely-positioned spans animated with `opacity`, `filter: blur()`, `scale`, and **variable-font axis animation** (`font-variation-settings` / `font-weight` interpolation on Archivo) for a true morph feel.
- Mark the rotating stack `aria-hidden="true"` and provide a static, visually-hidden (`sr-only`) sentence with the full meaning for assistive tech.

**3.4 Gradient Text Fill**
- Utility class `.kt-gradient-text`: `background-image: linear-gradient(90deg, var(--primary), var(--secondary))`, `-webkit-background-clip: text; background-clip: text; color: transparent;` (include both prefixed and standard). Both gradient stops must hold ≥3:1 contrast against the section background in **both** themes (values in 2.2 are pre-validated — do not change hue families without re-validating).

**3.5 Scroll-Triggered Reveals**
- Load **GSAP core + ScrollTrigger** from cdnjs (latest stable 3.x, `defer`). **Explicit substitution:** do **not** load the SplitText plugin; use the custom splitter from 3.1 instead.
- Use ScrollTrigger for: the hero entrance timeline, staggered in-view reveals of section headers/cards/steps (batch), and an optional decorative scrub-parallax on oversized outlined "ghost words" (`aria-hidden`, `-webkit-text-stroke` with non-webkit fallback via `@supports`) positioned behind sections.
- **Progressive enhancement gate:** every "hidden-until-animated" CSS rule must be scoped under `html.anim-ready` — a class `script.js` adds **only** after GSAP loads AND `prefers-reduced-motion: no-preference` matches. Without JS, without GSAP, or with reduced motion: all content is fully visible, static, and styled.

**3.6 Marquee Strip**
- A pure-CSS infinite text marquee (duplicated content, `translateX` keyframes, `aria-hidden` on duplicates) between Hero and Features. Pauses on `prefers-reduced-motion` (also gated by `anim-ready`).

**3.7 Motion Safety**
- Under `@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)`: kill all keyframes/marquee/typing (show full text instantly), disable GSAP entirely, remove all entrance transforms. Nothing may flash, slide, or auto-play.

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## 4. SECTION-BY-SECTION BUILD REQUIREMENTS

**4.1 Global Chrome**
- Visible-on-focus "Skip to content" link; sticky header (`z-index: var(--z-dropdown)`) containing: text wordmark logo, anchor nav (Features, How It Works, Testimonials, Pricing, FAQ), theme toggle (per 2.3), primary CTA button, and an accessible mobile menu button (`.nav__toggle`, `aria-expanded`, panel closes on `Esc`/overlay click, focus managed — overlay uses `--z-modal`).
- Anchor links use `scroll-margin-top` offsets and smooth scrolling disabled under reduced motion.

**4.2 Hero**
- Oversized display headline, fluid `clamp(3rem, 10vw, 8.5rem)`, tight leading (0.95–1.05), letter-split entrance (3.1); one word gradient-filled (3.4); one word morphing (3.3).
- Typing-effect subline (3.2), short value paragraph, primary CTA + secondary ghost CTA (anchor to How It Works), bouncing scroll cue (`arrow_downward` icon + "Scroll" label).

**4.3 Features — 3 Cards**
- Section header with staggered letter reveal; three cards: gradient icon tile, title, description, "Learn more" text link. Cards per 5.2. Card titles use display font; icons are Material Symbols.

**4.4 How It Works — 3 Steps**
- Three numbered steps with giant outlined numerals ("01 02 03" via `-webkit-text-stroke` + fallback), staggered scroll-triggered rise+blur reveals, connected by a decorative animated rule.

**4.5 Testimonials**
- One featured large-quote card (oversized typographic quotation glyph) plus supporting grid; 5-star ratings rendered as `star` Material Symbols; fictional names/roles; initial-letter avatars (gradient circles, pure CSS text). Scroll-staggered entrance.

**4.6 Pricing — 3 Tiers + Toggle**
- Monthly/Yearly toggle button (`aria-pressed`, class `.is-yearly` on the section swaps visible price spans via CSS `display`); an `aria-live="polite"` status announces "Yearly pricing shown — save 20%".
- Tiers: Starter (free), Pro (highlighted, "Most popular" badge, elevated card), Studio. Feature lists with `check` icons. Each tier's CTA button implements all states in 5.1.

**4.7 FAQ — Accessible Accordion**
- 6 real English Q&As about the product. Custom accordion: question is a `<button>` with `aria-expanded` + `aria-controls`; panel animated via `grid-template-rows: 0fr → 1fr` (no JS height measurement); rotating `expand_more` chevron; single-open behavior; full keyboard operability.

**4.8 Final CTA**
- Giant gradient-filled kinetic headline, plus an **email capture form** (per 5.3): label, input, submit button demonstrating loading → success/error flows, feedback text in an `aria-live` region. Prevent default; simulate submission with a timeout. No backend calls.

**4.9 Footer**
- Flex-wrap columns of secondary links (Product / Company / Resources), brand blurb, social links as text links or generic Material Symbols, copyright with auto-updating year, and a "Back to top" link. Links to non-existent pages may use `href="#"` placeholders; links with real targets must use real anchors.

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## 5. COMPONENT DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS

**5.1 Buttons** — all states as CSS classes:
- **Default:** `display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; gap: 0.5rem;` minimum touch target 44×44px; pill radius.
- **Hover:** brightness/shadow shift, `cursor: pointer`.
- **Focus:** distinct visible ring using `--primary` (`outline` and/or `box-shadow`).
- **Active:** `transform: scale(0.97)`.
- **Loading (`.is-loading`):** pointer-events disabled, prevents double submission, renders a rotating Material Symbols `progress` icon spinner without changing button dimensions.
- **Disabled (`.is-disabled` / `disabled`):** `opacity: 0.5`, greyscale, `cursor: not-allowed`.
- **Success/Error (`.is-success` / `.is-error`):** temporary feedback styles driven by `--text-success` / `--text-error`, never color alone (pair with icon/text).
- **`.btn-danger`:** define visually distinct in both themes even if unused.

**5.2 Cards**
- **Default:** flexbox layout, `--bg-secondary`, subtle `--border-default` border, `--radius-lg`, `--shadow-sm`.
- **Hover:** `transform: translateY(-2px)` + shadow shift to `--shadow-md`.
- **Focus-within:** border highlights when a child link/button receives focus.
- **Skeleton:** define `.card--skeleton` shimmer keyframe utility classes (stable dimensions, no layout jump) for future dynamic use.

**5.3 Form & Input (`input-group`)**
- Flex container wrapping: `<label>`, `<input>`, and a dedicated error/success feedback element (`aria-live="polite"`).
- **States via classes/pseudo-classes:** empty, focus (outline ring), filled, valid (`.is-valid`: success border + `check` icon), invalid (`.is-error`: `--border-error` border, `--text-error` message, `error` icon — never color alone), disabled, read-only.

**5.4 Accordion / Mobile Menu**
- Follow the overlay rules in 4.1 and 4.7: backdrop, `Esc` close, focus return, animated open/close via CSS transitions.

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## 6. CORE UX, MICRO-INTERACTION & ACCESSIBILITY RULES

**6.1 Responsive by default** — fluid `clamp()` sizing, no horizontal overflow, rows collapse to columns on small viewports.
**6.2 Smooth animations** — `transition: var(--transition-normal)` on every state change; `prefers-reduced-motion` fully honored (Section 3.7).
**6.3 Accessibility** — sufficient contrast in both modes (body text ≥4.5:1, large display text ≥3:1); **never rely on color alone**; semantic HTML5 landmarks (`header`, `main`, `section`, `footer`); correct ARIA roles/labels/`aria-expanded`/`aria-pressed` on every custom widget; logical DOM and focus order; 100% keyboard operability; `aria-live` regions for form feedback, pricing toggle, and any dynamic status.
**6.4 Mandatory visual feedback** — every hover, click, focus, and submission triggers a visible state change (nav underline animation, button states, card lift, chevron rotation, toggle knob motion, form state icons).
**6.5 Destructive actions** — none on this page, but `.btn-danger` must still be distinct in both themes.

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## 7. DELIVERABLES, NAMING & ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA

**7.1 File Structure**
- `index.html` — semantic markup, Google Fonts/Material Symbols links, GSAP CDN `<script defer>` tags, and **exactly one** deferred entry-point reference to `script.js` (placed in `<head>` so the persisted theme applies before first paint). No inline `<script>` blocks.
- `style.css` — single source of truth, organized by `@layer` with section comments.
- `script.js` — modules for: theme persistence, split-text utility, GSAP/ScrollTrigger init behind the `anim-ready` gate, accordion, pricing toggle, mobile menu, form validation/feedback.

**7.2 Naming Convention**
- **BEM only** (`block__element--modifier`), e.g., `.hero__title`, `.btn--primary`, `.card--featured`, `.input-group__error`. JS state hooks use `is-*` classes (`is-open`, `is-loading`, `in-view`, `anim-ready`). **Never mix conventions; no raw utility classes in HTML.**

**7.3 Content Rules**
- Real English copy for every section; placeholders (`href="#"`) only for genuinely unspecified destinations. No lorem ipsum. No unrequested placeholder images (no images at all).

**7.4 Acceptance Checklist (self-verify before responding)**
- Zero `style="` attributes; zero inline `<svg>`; zero inline scripts; zero lorem ipsum.
- Both themes pass contrast pairing; theme persists across reload; toggle exposes correct `aria-pressed`/`aria-label`.
- No horizontal scroll at 320px; all touch targets ≥44×44px.
- Full keyboard journey works: nav → mobile menu → FAQ → pricing toggle → form submit → footer.
- With JS disabled or `prefers-reduced-motion: reduce`, every text is fully visible and legible.
- All animations use transform/opacity/filter/font-axes only.

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## 8. FINAL OUTPUT INSTRUCTION

Generate the complete, final code for `index.html`, `style.css`, and `script.js` **now, in a single response**, fully implementing Sections 1–7. Do not summarize, do not truncate, do not ask questions. First attempt = final attempt.