Utilities

The utilities the kit adds to Tailwind's own: the dotted ground plates sit on, the shimmer it pulls in from tw-shimmer, and the scroll-fade and no-scrollbar that come with shadcn's sheet. Import it from your globals.css.

01Preview

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bg-dottedutilities.css

A 16px grid of dots in the border color, for a ground that should read as a canvas.

Thinking through it…
shimmertw-shimmer

A highlight that sweeps across text while something is working, and holds still under reduced motion.

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scroll-fadeshadcn

Fades a scroll area's edges, but only the edges with more to scroll to.

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no-scrollbarshadcn

Hides the scrollbar and keeps the scrolling, for a row whose overflow is obvious from what it cuts off.

02Installation

npx shadcn@latest add https://aiellie.app/r/utilities.json