# Circular Text — primitive for kinetic type (react)

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Small white capitals set around a ring that turns slowly, like a spinning badge or stamp

- **Install:** `npx shadcn@latest add https://animata.design/r/text/circular-text.json`
- **Registry:** animata · **Framework:** react · **License:** MIT
- **Docs and preview:** https://animata.design/docs/text/circular-text
- **Source:** https://github.com/codse/animata/blob/main/animata/text/circular-text.tsx
- **Example:** https://skills.varg.ai/previews/lib-animata-circular-text.mp4?v=68756 (Captured from the library’s own demo page (Animata))
- **Time:** Drive from the frame. Runs on its own clock (requestAnimationFrame, timers, springs or CSS). Drive it from frame / fps before rendering, or the render drifts.
- **Runs:** local render, free
- **Aspect:** any

## Prompt that renders it frame-exact

Use Circular Text from Animata (https://animata.design/docs/text/circular-text, MIT) as a rotating badge: a short line such as "NEW DROP • LIMITED •" circling a logo, a price or a play button, placed in a corner or next to the product. Each character is placed around the circle with rotate(angle) translateY(-radius), and motion spins the whole ring 360° every spinDuration seconds on an endless repeat, which runs on wall time. For a render, set the ring's rotation yourself: rotate = 360 * ((frame / fps) / spinDuration % 1) in Remotion, or a linear rotation tween with a finite repeat on HyperFrames' paused timeline. Set text (end it with a separator so the loop closes), spinDuration (8–12 s reads well), radius, font size and colour.

## Used in

- [Product launch film](https://skills.varg.ai/video/product-launch.md)
- [Feature announcement](https://skills.varg.ai/video/feature-announcement.md)
- [Ad variants for testing](https://skills.varg.ai/video/ad-variants.md)
- [Sale & offer promo](https://skills.varg.ai/video/offer-promo.md)
- [Faceless narrated video](https://skills.varg.ai/video/faceless-explainer.md)
- [Quiz, poll & would-you-rather](https://skills.varg.ai/video/quiz.md)
- [Meme format](https://skills.varg.ai/video/meme.md)
- [Changelog & release notes](https://skills.varg.ai/video/changelog.md)

## More kinetic type

- [Char Slam Explode](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.char-slam-explode.md) — `npx hyperframes add char-slam-explode`
- [Extended Keyframe](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.extended-keyframe.md) — `npx hyperframes add extended-keyframe`
- [Kinetic Center Build](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.kinetic-center-build.md) — `npx hyperframes add kinetic-center-build`
- [Kinetic Type](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.kinetic-type.md) — `npx hyperframes init my-video --example kinetic-type`
- [Kinetic Type Swap](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.kinetic-type-swap.md) — `npx hyperframes add kinetic-type-swap`
- [Shutter Slam](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.shutter-slam.md) — `npx hyperframes add shutter-slam`