Brutalist Flip Card with SVG and Glitch Effects Using HTML & CSS
This interactive card design captures a brutalist aesthetic with sharp borders, stark contrast, and raw textures. The card has two sides — front and back — and flips on click, simulating a strong physical interaction. The design is enhanced with SVG elements, glitch animations, and brutal spin effects to emphasize motion and character.
Front Face Design
The front of the card includes a product image rendered entirely in SVG. The SVG features geometric shapes, layered patterns, and stark color contrasts. It uses polygon, rect, and circle elements to create a boxy, mechanical icon, layered with a custom pattern fill for texture.
Beneath the SVG is a structured block of content:
A bold title in all caps
A large price value
A short, uppercase product slogan
A buy button styled with solid borders and hover overlays
A subtle animated noise overlay and scanline bar glide across the card when hovered, reinforcing a retro-futuristic glitch aesthetic.
Flip Interaction and Back Face
On click (using the :active state), the card rotates 180° on the Y-axis, revealing a flipped back side. This face is mostly black, with bold white stroke borders. The same SVG art reappears here to maintain continuity, but additional messaging overlays the design:
A large “99.99” text animates with a glitch pulse
Below it, a smaller “ADDED TO CART” message appears
These animations reinforce the tactile sense of having pressed a real-world button or mechanism.
Visual Behavior on Hover
Hovering over the card triggers multiple layered effects:
The card scales, rotates slightly, and skews, giving a feeling of distortion and physical tension.
A noise overlay flickers across the surface.
The SVG spins and glitches, as if reacting to user energy.
The “BUY” button background slides in with an emphasized color shift.
The combination of CSS keyframe animations, filters, and transforms brings a dramatic, deliberate tension to the design. It doesn’t try to feel smooth or polished — instead, it embraces raw motion and glitch.
Texture and Motion
Several key animation sequences define the character of this layout:
Scanline and scanline-fast animations add sweeping horizontal light bars
Brutal-spin rotates the SVG on hover with sharp ease-in-out timing
SVG-glitch creates invert-flashing distortion effects
Noise-move simulates analog static jitter
Added-glitch animates the confirmation message with scale and skew pulses
Each of these plays a role in reinforcing a tactile, unstable, and visceral interaction style.
This card is a strong statement piece for any brutalist or glitch-heavy interface. It captures motion, soundless chaos, and a visual punch — all with pure HTML and CSS.
This code uses HTML and CSS only — no JavaScript included.
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