Holographic Shimmer Card
A white light sweeps across the card on hover using translateX animation, over a multi-color gradient background for a trading-card holographic look.
Holographic Shimmer Card the 8th of 20 designs in the 20 CSS Cards with Animations collection. The design is implemented in pure CSS — no JavaScript required. Copy the HTML and CSS panels below into your project. Because the demo is pure CSS, it works in any framework or templating engine you happen to use. The design honours prefers-reduced-motion and uses real semantic markup, so it ships accessibility-ready out of the box.
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The code
<div class="stage-8">
<div class="card-holo">
<div class="holo-shine"></div>
<div class="holo-content">
<div class="holo-label">Ultra Rare</div>
<h4>Holographic</h4>
<div class="holo-num">★</div>
<div class="holo-bar"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div> .card-holo {
width: 200px;
padding: 22px;
border-radius: 16px;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
cursor: pointer;
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
}
.card-holo::before {
content: "";
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
background: linear-gradient(
135deg,
rgba(124, 108, 255, 0.2),
rgba(61, 232, 245, 0.15),
rgba(255, 108, 138, 0.2),
rgba(30, 217, 138, 0.15)
);
opacity: 0.7;
}
.holo-shine {
position: absolute;
inset: 0;
background: linear-gradient(
105deg,
transparent 40%,
rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15) 50%,
transparent 60%
);
transform: translateX(-100%);
transition: transform 0.5s ease;
}
.card-holo:hover .holo-shine {
transform: translateX(100%);
}
.holo-content {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
.holo-label {
font-family: var(--ccg-mono);
font-size: 9px;
letter-spacing: 0.12em;
text-transform: uppercase;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5);
margin-bottom: 8px;
}
.card-holo h4 {
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: 800;
color: #fff;
margin-bottom: 4px;
letter-spacing: -0.02em;
}
.card-holo .holo-num {
font-size: 28px;
font-weight: 800;
color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
position: absolute;
top: 12px;
right: 16px;
letter-spacing: -0.04em;
}
.holo-bar {
height: 3px;
border-radius: 2px;
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7c6cff, #ff6c8a, #3de8f5);
margin-top: 14px;
}
/* parent stage backdrop (so the demo renders standalone) */
[class^="stage-"] {
width: 100%;
min-height: 200px;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
position: relative;
padding: 2.5rem 1.5rem;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.stage-8 {
background: #07070e;
overflow: hidden;
}
/* gallery vars + keyframes (so the demo renders standalone) */
:root {
--ccg-bg: #0a0a0f;
--ccg-surface: #111118;
--ccg-surface2: #17171f;
--ccg-surface3: #1e1e28;
--ccg-border: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);
--ccg-border2: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.13);
--ccg-accent: #7c6cff;
--ccg-pink: #ff6c8a;
--ccg-green: #1ed98a;
--ccg-amber: #f5a84a;
--ccg-cyan: #3de8f5;
--ccg-text: #f0eeff;
--ccg-muted: #6b6987;
--ccg-label: #9896b8;
--ccg-mono: "DM Mono", "Fira Code", monospace;
--ccg-sans: "Syne", sans-serif;
}