A tiny little experiment inspired by the cursor animation on Lando Norris’ website.
So, I was scrolling Reddit and saw a post showing off the animation on the official Lando Norris site. Super smooth, super clean. A few days later, Syntax uploaded this video trying to rebuild the effect:
Their attempt was cool, but I had this feeling that it could be done way simpler and lighter. So I tried building my own version—no frameworks, no heavy code, just CSS and a bit of vanilla JS.
Honestly? Mostly curiosity. I wanted to see if I could get something that felt like the original but with:
- Less code
- Better performance
- Easier to drop into any project
It’s not a perfect clone, but it’s minimal, fast, and does the job.
index.html– the a elements to manipolatestyle.css– a few lines of styling and animationsscript.js– only the logic to generate span from a element
Everything is intentionally simple.
- Download or clone
- Open
index.html - Move your mouse around and enjoy the little floaty guys
No build steps, no dependencies.
This was just a fun side project after seeing the original and the Syntax version. I’m pretty sure mine is a lot better :D