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Karesansui Interaction Button
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A minimalist button inspired by Japanese Zen gardens. It features 'Ma' (intentional emptiness) with a sophisticated color palette of Rice Paper White, Charcoal, and Moss Green. The design utilizes an SVG turbulence filter to give the edges a slightly organic, hand-crafted feel, avoiding the harsh perfection of digital lines. The hover animation mimics the growth of moss or a rising tide, emphasizing a slow, meditative transition rather than an abrupt digital change.
Features
- Organic edge distortion via SVG displacement maps
- Meditation-inspired 'rising moss' hover effect
- Strict Zen-minimalist color palette
- Ultra-wide letter spacing for high-end legibility
- Fluid responsiveness for mobile devices
- No-JavaScript interaction logic
Uses
- High-end wellness or meditation app interfaces
- Minimalist architecture portfolios
- Luxury skincare e-commerce
- Boutique tea shop websites
- Digital detox landing pages
Benefits
- Reduces cognitive load through extreme minimalism
- Conveys a sense of tranquility and luxury
- Lightweight performance with zero JS dependencies
- Unique hand-crafted aesthetic via SVG filters
- Highly accessible font rendering and contrast
Techniques Used
SVG feTurbulence and feDisplacementMap for organic borders, cubic-bezier transitions for meditative timing, relative/absolute positioning for layer-based animations, CSS transforms for state changes.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is the organic edge effect technically implemented for the Karesansui button?
The organic, hand-crafted aesthetic is achieved by applying an SVG filter to the button container using feTurbulence to create a fractal noise map and feDisplacementMap to distort the edges based on that noise.
What specific color values are used to represent the Rice Paper White and Moss Green palette?
The design utilizes Rice Paper White (#F9F8F1) for the primary surface, Charcoal (#2E2E2E) for typography and borders, and Moss Green (#4A5D23) for the animated hover states.
How is the slow, meditative hover transition managed in CSS?
The transition uses a duration of 800ms to 1200ms with a custom cubic-bezier timing function (e.g., cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1)) to mimic natural growth rather than a linear digital change.
Does the SVG turbulence filter impact browser rendering performance?
SVG filters can be resource-intensive; to optimize performance, the filter is typically applied to a pseudo-element or uses the will-change: filter property to inform the browser's GPU acceleration.
How is the 'Ma' or intentional emptiness maintained within the button's layout?
Ma is achieved through generous internal padding—often a 2:3 ratio relative to text height—ensuring that the Charcoal typography remains isolated and emphasized against the Rice Paper White field.