Animate Text

Animate Text is a Frontend skill for Claude Code, published by marvkr in better-design.

223 stars10 forkson marvkr/better-designAdded 2026/09/04+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/20

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Install Animate Text

Copy Animate Text into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/marvkr/better-design/tree/main/.agents/skills/animate-text ~/.claude/skills/animate-text

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/marvkr/better-design.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .agents/skills/animate-text/SKILL.md in marvkr/better-design
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/animate-text
Collection: One of 2 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Frontend — 641 skills

What Animate Text does

Animate Text provides curated text animation specs and exact JSON contracts for headings, labels, counters, and text swaps. Use it to choose a named effect or translate it into WAAPI, Motion, Framer Motion, GSAP, CSS, Lottie, or Rive.

Animate Text is cataloged under Frontend on DirSkills. Animate Text comes from a repository tagged ai-design, claude-code, claude-code-for-design, claude-design and codex-design.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Animate Text

Use this skill as a text animation catalog backed by generated JSON contracts.

Use assets/specs/<id>.json for a portable motion contract. Use assets/effects/<id>.json for exact animation reproduction, including content, renderer algorithm, playback, runtime, host requirements, rendering contract, and library adapters.

This skill ships 24 specs in total. The website currently showcases 20 of them.

When To Use

Use this skill when the request involves:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Animate Text

What else does marvkr publish alongside Animate Text?
Animate Text is one of 2 skills that DirSkills catalogs from marvkr/better-design, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Better Design. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Animate Text does, and is maintained by marvkr in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the marvkr/better-design page.
How does Animate Text compare to other Frontend skills?
Animate Text ranks #579 by stars among the 641 Frontend skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Angular Developer, Android Clean Architecture and Accessibility. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Animate Text against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.