# nzbin/three-dots

🔮 CSS loading animations made with single element.

Repository: https://github.com/nzbin/three-dots
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/three-dots
Homepage: https://nzbin.github.io/three-dots/
Language: SCSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: loading-animations, three-dots, single-element-css-spinners, sass, less
Last push: 2023-10-23T01:20:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3164, "days_push": 1046, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1342, forks 125 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:26.298754+00:00)

## What it is
Three Dots is a set of CSS loading animations, each built with a single HTML element, available as a Sass/Less library. It provides 14+ dot-based spinner styles customizable via Sass variables.

## Use cases
- add loading spinners to a website
- css loading animation with single div
- customize spinner color and size with sass
- typing indicator animation for chat ui
- lightweight css-only loaders without javascript

## When to choose
- you need lightweight CSS-only loading animations with no JavaScript
- you want easily themeable spinners via Sass variables
- you prefer minimal markup (one div per loader)

## When to avoid
- you need complex animated illustrations or Lottie-style animations
- your project does not use a CSS build pipeline and you need framework components
- you need progress bars or percentage-based loaders rather than indeterminate spinners

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: css-framework, animation, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, web-design
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: loading-animations, css-spinners, sass, less, single-element, spinners, web-server

## Member repositories
- nzbin/three-dots (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.298754+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:43:42.076074+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nzbin/three-dots (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:26.298754+00:00, sha 95300b5fd296)
  - homepage: https://nzbin.github.io/three-dots/ (fetched 2026-08-29T12:02:27.688934+00:00, sha 8ff5fe721a5f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.