What is Liquid glass?
The short answer
Liquid glass is a glass-like interface style where panels refract and bend the content behind them, with highlights that move as if the surface were a thick, fluid lens.
Liquid glass, explained
It goes beyond frosted blur by adding refraction and specular highlights, usually with SVG filters or shaders. It is striking and demanding, so it is used on a few hero elements rather than everywhere.
Questions people ask about Liquid glass
What is Liquid glass?
Liquid glass is a glass-like interface style where panels refract and bend the content behind them, with highlights that move as if the surface were a thick, fluid lens.
Related terms
Glassmorphism is a style of translucent, frosted-glass panels that blur whatever sits behind them, with a thin light edge to suggest thickness.
ShaderA shader is a small program that runs on the GPU for every pixel or vertex, calculating colour and shape; shaders create effects like liquid metal, glow, ripples and gradients.
WebGLWebGL is the browser technology that draws hardware-accelerated 2D and 3D graphics inside a web page using the device's GPU, with no plugin.
Micro-interactionsMicro-interactions are small, single-purpose animations that respond to what a visitor does, like a button that presses in, a heart that fills or a field that shakes on an error.
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