# Signal Wave (`.sds-signal-wave`)

Wider stagger wave, slower period. Text animation in SDS Motion Forge v5.0.0. It loops continuously as soon as the class is applied.

- Page: https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/signal-wave/
- Category: Text (https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/categories/text/)
- Animated properties: transform
- Compositor-only: yes
- Needs child elements: yes
- Needs per-character spans: no
- JavaScript: none required

## Use it

```html
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@salkomdesignstudio/sds-motion-forge/dist/categories/text.min.css" />

<h1 class="sds-signal-wave"><span>Signal</span> <span>Wave</span></h1>
```

## How it works

Plays as soon as the class is applied, looping continuously. It animates movement and scale (transform) — compositor-only, so it never causes page reflow. Timing is fixed for this effect, but you can still override animation-duration/timing-function on the element. The animation runs on the element's direct children — it needs child elements to be visible.

## Related

- [Shadow Lift](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/shadow-lift/)
- [Shatter In](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/shatter-in/)
- [Shimmer Sweep](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/shimmer-sweep/)
- [Skew Slide](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/skew-slide/)
- [Slant Rise](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/slant-rise/)
- [Slice Reveal](https://sds-motion-forge.netlify.app/animations/slice-reveal/)