Live Halftone Hero

Risograph studio and zine press

Printed loud, one dot at a time.

Two-color riso runs from 50 to 5,000 copies, bound by hand in our Fairlie Street shop. Bring a file on Monday, leave with a stack on Friday.

A woman with short hair looking back over her shoulder against a clear sky
About this block

Live Halftone HeroPRO

An editorial print-shop hero with a big condensed headline, a short intro and two square Turn Arrow buttons beside a portrait plate built on the halftone background component: WebGL prints the photo live as a rotated halftone screen, with dot size taken from the photo's luminance and a slow wave traveling through the dots, and the cursor presses a shaded 3D swell into the print that magnifies the dots and sends ripples through them (it drifts and ripples on its own for touch). Every print setting passes through the halftone prop; ink and paper follow the theme tokens, it pauses offscreen, holds a still print for reduced motion and falls back to a grayscale image without WebGL.

Hero202: Live Halftone Hero

An editorial hero with a condensed black headline, an intro and square Turn Arrow buttons beside a 4:5 portrait plate that Halftone prints live in WebGL as a rotated dot screen, with a slow wave through the dots and a 3D swell that follows the cursor.

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Installation

Swap YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_KEY for the email and license key on your account. Find your license key on your account page.

Radix flavor

bash
npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r/hero202?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

Base UI flavor

bash
npx shadcn add "https://ui.beste.co/r-base/hero202?email=YOUR_EMAIL&license_key=YOUR_KEY"

This installs the block to components/beste/block/hero202.tsx plus the halftone background and the button24 buttons it uses.

Quick start

The installed file exports hero202Demo alongside the block: the exact props behind the preview above. Spread it to get a working hero in one line.

tsx
import { Hero202, hero202Demo } from "@/components/beste/block/hero202";

export default function Page() {
  return <Hero202 {...hero202Demo} />;
}

Then replace the demo with your own props. Written out, a trimmed setup looks like this:

tsx
import { Hero202 } from "@/components/beste/block/hero202";

export default function Page() {
  return (
    <Hero202
      eyebrow="Risograph studio and zine press"
      heading="Printed loud, one dot at a time."
      description="Two-color riso runs from 50 to 5,000 copies, bound by hand."
      buttons={[
        { label: "Get a print quote", href: "/quote" },
        { label: "Browse the zine shelf", href: "https://beste.co" },
      ]}
      image={{
        src: "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1621983266286-09645be8fd01?w=2000&q=80",
        alt: "A woman with short hair looking back over her shoulder against a clear sky",
      }}
      halftone={{ dotSize: 8, angle: 45, wave: 0.5, bulge: 0.6, ripples: 0.6 }}
    />
  );
}

Props

PropTypeDefaultDescription
eyebrowstring–Small line above the headline
headingstring–Condensed headline, rendered as the page h1
descriptionstring–Intro paragraph beside the buttons
buttonsActionButton[][]Square Turn Arrow buttons (Button24); the first is dark, the rest light with a 2px border
image{ src: string; alt: string }–Photo printed as halftone; the plate is skipped without it
halftoneOmit<HalftoneProps, "src" | "alt" | "className" | "children">–Forwards Halftone props: inkColor, paperColor, dotSize, angle, wave, speed, contrast, bulge, bulgeSize, ripples, interactive, paused
classNamestring–Extra classes for the outer <section>
ts
type ActionButton = {
  label: string;
  href: string;
};

Behavior notes

  • The grid is 7 to 5 columns from lg; below that the plate stacks under the text. From md the intro and buttons sit side by side at the bottom of the text column.
  • Dot size follows the photo's luminance. The cursor presses a shaded swell that magnifies the dots and sends ripples through them, and on touch the swell drifts and ripples on its own.
  • The plate wipes in from left to right with a clipPath over 1.1s, and the text rises in on mount at 0, 0.15s and 0.35s.
  • Ink and paper colors take CSS colors, theme tokens included. The print pauses offscreen, holds a still frame for reduced motion and falls back to a grayscale image without WebGL.
  • With reduced motion the wipe and the rise-ins are skipped. The plate uses cursor-crosshair.

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