Headline: proximity
A headline whose letters lift, grow and take the accent colour as the pointer comes near, and settle as it leaves. On a phone a finger does the same and a soft wave crosses the line as the page scrolls. Needs the EtchPress Runtime; without it the headline is plain.
Live preview
Come closer, it moves.
Every yard starts with a conversation.
Before you copy
This is a showpiece. It pastes into Etch like any other item and it is complete without anything else, but its motion comes from the EtchPress runtime: a small script that loads only on the pages that use a showpiece.
Etch for WordPress: download the EtchPress Runtime plugin from Downloads in your account, install it and activate it. Paste your licence key under Settings, EtchPress Runtime, and it updates from the Plugins screen like any other plugin.
Etch Studio: download the EtchPress runtime files from Downloads in your account, unzip them and drop them into your project's Asset Manager, then paste the item. Studio ships the files it needs with your site.
What you can build with it
A playful hero headline. A contact section's invitation. A 404 page. The name of a studio at the top of its site.
Props
text (text); level (select: h2, h1, h3); size (select: display, heading)
States shown
At rest the headline is plain. When first seen one wave crosses it. Pointer near: the letters under it rise and colour, falling off with distance. Touch: a finger, and a wave tied to the scroll. Screen readers get the sentence once. Reduced motion and no runtime: plain.
How to change it
Content and options are 3 props in the component's settings panel. Colour, type, spacing and radius follow your Automatic.css settings, so a change to the site's palette or scale changes this too. For anything else, edit the classes in the Style Manager, starting with .proximity. Its behaviour is a small script that travels with the component; no plugin and nothing to install.
ACSS tokens used
primary for the accent; the heading's own type. Display size is a clamp from 2.5rem to 6rem.
ACSS requirements
ACSS 4 defaults. Needs the EtchPress Runtime, 0.5.0 or later: the EtchPress Runtime plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files dropped into the project's Asset Manager in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.
Version history
Version 1.0.1, October 2, 2026: Sizes now follow the width of the place it sits in, not the screen, so it fits a narrow column on a wide screen. Version 1.0.0, October 1, 2026: First release, with the EtchPress Runtime 0.5.0.
Tested with
Etch 1.6.7 and ACSS 4.0.1. Version 1.0.1.
Needs the EtchPress runtime
The plugin on WordPress, or the runtime's files in Etch Studio. Without it you get the still version.
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