Liquid Glass

A pane of thick glass: the background blurs and bends near the edges like a lens.

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Category
Creative
Access
Pro
Source
113 lines · one file
States
5 drawn

The decision inside it

Never a clear hole

Only Chromium can bend the backdrop, so other browsers get frosted glass or the card colour, and the text on it stays readable.

When to use it

Use Liquid Glass for a small floating surface over a photo or video: a player, a toolbar, a badge. It falls back to frosted glass outside Chromium. For a readable panel of text, use a card.

Installation

How you get it

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or any coding agent. It installs the file and uses it as it is, instead of writing a new one.

Use Liro's Liquid Glass for this.
Install it: npx shadcn@latest add @liro/liquid-glass
(the @liro registry is set up in components.json, with LIRO_KEY in .env.local)
Import it from @/components/ui/liquid-glass.
Do not rewrite or restyle it. Pass my data through its props
and keep its built-in states.

For the full brief with every prop and the mistakes assistants usually make, use Copy prompt above. Pro components install through the @liro registry with your CLI token: see the Namespaced tab.

Usage

components/now-playing.tsx
import { LiquidGlass } from "@/components/ui/liquid-glass";

export function NowPlaying() {
  return (
    <LiquidGlass radius={999} className="px-5 py-3 font-semibold">
      Weekly signing digest
    </LiquidGlass>
  );
}

API reference

“Copy prompt” above puts a full brief on your clipboard, install command, dependencies, props, and the mistakes an assistant usually makes with this component.

Props

Read from the component’s own TypeScript interface when the site is built, so this table cannot drift from the file you install.

TypeNotes
childrenReact.ReactNode No–
blurnumber NoBlur of what is behind, in pixels. Keep it low so it reads as glass, not frost. Default 1.
refractionnumber NoHow strongly the rim bends the picture, 0 to 1. Default 0.5.
tintstring NoA CSS colour laid over the glass. Default the card colour at 16%.
radiusnumber NoCorner radius, in pixels. Default 24.
fallback"frosted" | "solid" NoWhat browsers without SVG backdrop filters get. Default "frosted".

Dependencies

npm packages

clsxtailwind-merge

Liro foundations, installed alongside it

liro-theme

States

All of them are drawn by the component. None is left for you to design.

  • Pill
  • Card
  • Strong bend
  • Frosted fallback
  • Solid fallback

Accessibility

  • Keyboard reachable throughout, in visual order
  • Focus trapped in overlays, Escape closes them
  • Focus returns to whatever opened it
  • Live regions announce what changed, not that something did
  • Honours prefers-reduced-motion

Responsive behavior

  • Sizes to its container, not the viewport
  • Usable from 320px up
  • Pointer-based interaction, so trackpad and touch both work
  • No hover-only affordances