Halftone Dot Gradient

A print-style halftone screen whose dots genuinely shrink across the section, like a Ben-Day tone fading to paper. Gives editorial, comic, or print-brand sections real texture instead of a flat gradient, with zero client-side JS.

Backgrounds · Astro · Subscription · commercial licence · v1.0.1 · updated 2026-10-15 · Live demo

Install

velocityx add halftone-dot-gradient

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

---
import HalftoneDotGradient from '../components/velocity/halftone-dot-gradient/HalftoneDotGradient.astro';
---
<HalftoneDotGradient />

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
direction	'horizontal' | 'vertical' | 'diagonal'	'horizontal'	—
color	'primary' | 'accent' | 'ink'	'ink'	—
density	number	22	—
opacity	number	0.5	—
class	string	''	—

Files written

velocityx drops these into your project:

• components/velocity/halftone-dot-gradient/HalftoneDotGradient.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.