Movement applied to elements that brings interfaces to life and guides user attention through visual storytelling. Thoughtful animation improves usability by providing feedback, showing relationships between elements, and making interactions feel responsive. Framer offers powerful animation tools including appear effects, scroll-based triggers, and component variants with smooth transitions.

An animation that plays when an element first becomes visible on screen, typically as the user scrolls down the page. These effects add polish and draw attention to content as it enters the viewport. Framer provides various appear effects like fade, slide, scale, and blur that can be customized for timing, delay, and easing.

A CSS effect that applies visual filters like blur or color adjustment to the area behind an element, creating frosted glass or tinted overlay effects. This technique is popular for navigation bars and modal backgrounds that need to stand out while maintaining context with underlying content. In Framer, apply backdrop filters through the Fill properties to create modern, layered interfaces.

The visual layer behind an element’s content, which can include solid colors, gradients, images, videos, or combinations of these. Backgrounds establish visual hierarchy and mood while providing contrast for readable text. Framer supports multiple background layers, allowing you to combine images with color overlays and blend modes for sophisticated effects.

A setting that determines how an element’s colors interact with the layers beneath it, such as multiply, screen, overlay, or difference. Blend modes enable creative effects like color tinting images, creating texture overlays, and building complex visual compositions. Experiment with blend modes in Framer to achieve effects that would otherwise require image editing software.

A CSS effect that adds shadow beneath or around an element, creating depth and visual separation from the background. Shadows help establish hierarchy by making elements appear to float above the page surface. Framer offers detailed shadow controls including multiple shadows, inner shadows, and variables for consistent elevation systems.