Elements · Orbit text

A word repeated in tilted rings that turn in 3D around a photo, in front of it and behind it, beside an intro; with a pause button.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Elements · Orbit text on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

In the builder

Preview on the front end. Scripts don't run inside the builder, so here you only see the layout: the rings of letters are built by the script on the front end: here the word shows under the photo. Save and open the page to see the full result.

Structure

This is what the Bricks Structure panel shows after you paste the template. Component instances say which component they are.

Orbit text
  Container
    Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Button   (FBK Button)
    Orbit text   (FBK Orbit text)

The template also pastes a dashed note above the section, with the short version of this page. It only shows inside the builder, never on the published page — see Builder notes.

How to adjust

Every step is the same move: pick the element in the Structure panel, change its Properties.

Where are those panels?

How to adjust a template shows every one of them in a screenshot of the real builder: the Structure and Properties panels, the classes on an element, a component's style families and the field where a CSS variable goes.

The classes this element carries, in the Bricks panel.

This template's own component, with its Style group open.

1. Paste the template in Bricks first — see Copy and paste.
2. Select Intro (FBK Intro) › Properties: Eyebrow, Hide eyebrow, Title, Title level, Lead, Hide lead · Style group: Eyebrow style, Highlight, Title size, Accent line · Layout group: Alignment, Layout, Background, Spacing · Motion group: Reveal in slider.
3. Select Button (FBK Button) › Properties: Text, Link, Tone, Shadow on hover · Icon group: Icon, Icon position · Style group: Style, Size, Width, Hover effect.
4. Select Orbit text (FBK Orbit text) › Properties: Word, Photo, Alt text · Style group: Shape, Speed.
5. Spacing, sizes, color and timing with no property of their own: the CSS variables below.

CSS variables

These are the only values in the template meant to be changed by hand. Copy the block, paste it, edit the numbers.

/* the element · class .fbk-orbittext */
.fbk-orbittext {
  /* Colors of the letters in front and behind */
  --fbk-t-front: var(--primary);
  --fbk-t-back: color-mix(in srgb, var(--primary) 30%, var(--white));
  /* Letter size (% of the figure's width) and weight; rows of rings (read by
     the script) */
  --fbk-t-font: 12;
  --fbk-t-weight: 900;
  --fbk-t-rows: 4;
  /* Height of the rings' center on the figure, ring radius and gap between
     rows (in letters), tilt, one turn */
  --fbk-t-y: 62%;
  --fbk-t-radius: 3.2em;
  --fbk-t-row-gap: 0.95em;
  --fbk-t-tilt-x: -14deg;
  --fbk-t-tilt-z: -11deg;
  --fbk-t-turn: 16s;
}

Paste the block in the element's Style → CSS field (the selector is already in it), or set the same variables on the class itself to change every copy at once. The values are your framework's variables, so they follow your site: Choosing a framework.

Requirements

• Code execution. Needs "Execute code" enabled for the role in Bricks → Settings → Custom code, or the JS block shows as plain text instead of running.

What each requirement is, and how to set it up once for the whole site: Requirements.

Finish by hand

• The figure is the component FBK Orbit text: select Orbit text and change Word, Photo, Alt text, Shape and Speed in its properties (short words work best: the script repeats the word so each ring closes; screen readers read it once).
• For a cut-out figure, use a PNG or WebP with a transparent background and set Shape to No radius.
• Colors, letter size and weight, rows, radius, gap, tilt and turn time: --fbk-t-* on .fbk-orbittext.
• Keep the pause button: the rings turn without end (WCAG 2.2.2). They stop off screen and never turn for visitors who ask for reduced motion. Needs "Execute code"; without it the word shows under the photo.

On phones

The template is designed desktop first, the Bricks default, and only changes at the two widths the library uses:

• 991px and below — .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-section.

Those changes live in Bricks' own breakpoint fields, so you edit them where you always do: pick the breakpoint in the toolbar and the same fields follow.

Careful with the classes shared by the whole library (fbk-section, fbk-intro, the component classes): a change there shows up in every template that uses them.

If your site's breakpoints are set up mobile first, copy the mobile-first variant of the template instead — see Copy and paste.

Accessibility

In this template, keyboard focus is visible on every interactive piece; movement is cut back when the visitor's system asks for less motion; the state screen readers need is already set (aria-hidden, aria-label).

What is checked on every template, and what depends on your own palette: Accessibility.

Dark mode

With your site in dark mode this section turns dark too — the class fbk-section--auto-dark on the section does it. Remove the class to keep it light.

Its background is a modifier on the section, so you can swap it for any of the ones the template is checked with: fbk-section--light, fbk-section--soft, fbk-section--dark.

How the library follows your site's color scheme: Dark mode and preview.

Replaces

• Orbit text from Fancy Bricks 2.0

What happened to the old libraries, and what to do with pages already built with them: Migrating from 1.0/2.0.