HalftoneHover — Photo-to-halftone hover. No code needed.

Turn any photo into a living, interactive piece of design. On hover, your image crossfades into a halftone dot-art rendition — the same technique used in editorial print design and concert posters — rendered in real time directly in the browser.

What makes it different from a CSS filter: Most hover effects simply darken or blur the image. HalftoneHover actually reads each pixel's brightness and draws a proportionally sized dot in its place. Bright areas produce large dots; shadow areas produce finer ones. Facial contours and texture survive the transformation because shadows are never allowed to disappear completely — a technique called luminance lifting.

What you get:

• Drop-in Framer code component, no custom code on your end

• Connect any image via Framer's native image picker — drag and drop

• Fully responsive — fills whatever frame you place it in

• 6 visual controls in the properties panel: dot spacing, dot color, background color, minimum dot size, fade duration, and corner radius

• Smooth opacity crossfade on hover and mouse leave

• Instant rendering — image is downsampled before processing so there is no visible delay