Hand annotate

Pro

Hand-drawn emphasis on a phrase: an underline, box, circle, highlight or strike that draws itself on once when in view.

Installs components/ui/hand-annotate.tsxDepends on none beyond ReactMotion none in component source

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @caliper/hand-annotate

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When to use #

Use it for

Pointing at the part of a sentence that matters in onboarding or docs.
Changelogs and explainers.

Skip it when

Product data; use real highlighting and badges.

Installation #

terminal

pnpm dlx shadcn@latest add @caliper/hand-annotate

Adds its 2 files to components/ui/, each with its own stylesheet, and installs their packages. Pro installs with your access token, set up once per project. See Pro access. The first part also adds Caliper UI’s tokens; import them once as in Installation.

Usage #

Import it from your copy of the source. The example behind the preview comes with the source.

example.tsx

import { HandAnnotate } from "@/components/ui/hand-annotate"

The worked example comes with Pro

The 17-line example behind the preview opens here with a Pro or Team licence.

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API reference #

HandAnnotate

component

PropTypeDefault

typeShape"underline"

showbooleantrue

colorstring—

classNamestring—

children *ReactNode—

Motion #

It declares no animation in its component source. Any transition comes from its stylesheet, which uses the duration tokens that collapse to instant under prefers-reduced-motion.