Cursor Spotlight Wash

A soft radial glow that tracks the pointer across a section. One passive pointermove listener writes two CSS variables — no animation loop, no canvas — and it is never attached at all on touch devices or under reduced motion, which get a fixed centred glow in pure CSS.

Backgrounds · Astro · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.0 · updated 2026-10-21 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add cursor-spotlight-wash

Subscription component. Run velocityx login with your key first — get one.

---
import CursorSpotlightWash from '../components/velocity/cursor-spotlight-wash/CursorSpotlightWash.astro';
---
<CursorSpotlightWash />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
color	'primary' | 'accent'	'primary'	—
size	number	520	—
intensity	number	0.35	—
class	string	''	—

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/cursor-spotlight-wash/CursorSpotlightWash.astro

Peer dependencies

None.

Theming

Colours come from the primary-* / accent-* Tailwind scales, so this drops into a project that is not Velocity without dragging our brand in. Install the contract once:

velocityx theme

Then set your whole brand in one place — raw RGB channels, not hex (a hex here silently breaks every opacity variant):

:root {
  --vx-brand: custom;
  --vx-primary-600: 220 38 38;
}

There is no component-level font-family anywhere in the library — your font cascade wins.

Licence

Commercial, for the duration of an active Velocity X subscription. The source is served by the licence-gated endpoint, never by the public CDN.