Flip Clock
A copy-paste watch faces & clocks component in pure HTML & CSS. Zero dependencies, framework-agnostic, MIT-licensed.
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HTML
<div class="nuda-flip" role="img" aria-label="Flip clock 09:25">
<div class="nuda-flip__card">
<span class="nuda-flip__top">0</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__bot nuda-flip__bot--anim">9</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__hinge"></span>
</div>
<div class="nuda-flip__card">
<span class="nuda-flip__top">9</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__bot">9</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__hinge"></span>
</div>
<div class="nuda-flip__colon">:</div>
<div class="nuda-flip__card">
<span class="nuda-flip__top">2</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__bot">2</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__hinge"></span>
</div>
<div class="nuda-flip__card">
<span class="nuda-flip__top">5</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__bot nuda-flip__bot--anim">5</span>
<span class="nuda-flip__hinge"></span>
</div>
</div>CSS
/* Flip Clock
Split-flap aesthetic. The bottom half folds down to reveal a new digit.
In a real implementation, JS would swap the values on each tick. */
.nuda-flip {
--bg: #111114;
--ink: #fafafa;
display: inline-flex;
align-items: center;
gap: 6px;
padding: 14px;
background: #09090b;
border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.06);
border-radius: 12px;
}
.nuda-flip__card {
position: relative;
width: 46px;
height: 64px;
border-radius: 8px;
background: var(--bg);
overflow: hidden;
box-shadow: inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04);
}
.nuda-flip__top,
.nuda-flip__bot {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
display: flex;
align-items: center;
justify-content: center;
height: 50%;
font-family: ui-monospace, Menlo, monospace;
font-size: 36px;
font-weight: 700;
color: var(--ink);
overflow: hidden;
}
.nuda-flip__top {
top: 0;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #1c1c22, #15151a);
align-items: flex-end;
padding-bottom: 2px;
}
.nuda-flip__bot {
bottom: 0;
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0e0e12, #16161c);
align-items: flex-start;
padding-top: 2px;
}
.nuda-flip__bot--anim {
transform-origin: top;
animation: nuda-flip-drop 4s ease-in-out infinite;
}
.nuda-flip__hinge {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
top: 50%;
height: 1px;
background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.04);
}
.nuda-flip__colon {
font: 600 28px ui-monospace, Menlo, monospace;
color: var(--ink);
opacity: 0.6;
animation: nuda-flip-blink 1s steps(2) infinite;
}
@keyframes nuda-flip-drop {
0%, 40% { transform: rotateX(90deg); }
50%, 100% { transform: rotateX(0); }
}
@keyframes nuda-flip-blink {
50% { opacity: 0.15; }
}
@media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
.nuda-flip__bot--anim,
.nuda-flip__colon { animation: none; }
}How to use Flip Clock
Paste the HTML where you need it and the CSS into a global stylesheet (or a <style> tag). Every class is prefixed nuda- so it never collides with Tailwind or your own styles. Tweak the CSS custom properties to match your design system.
Works in React, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Next.js, Nuxt, Laravel Blade, Django, Rails — or a single .html file. No npm install, no build step.