Circular Text
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How this effect works
Each letter gets one transform built from two moves: rotate, then push. Rotating a letter by its share of the circle (letter i of n gets i × 360/n degrees) points it in its own direction; translating it "up" by the radius then lands it on the rim. Because the rotation happens first, every letter's "up" points somewhere different — that's the entire circle layout, no trigonometry in sight.
The spin is even cheaper: the letters never move again — only their shared container rotates, one transform per frame for the whole ring. The tangent layer is the typographic choice: letters that keep their rotation read like a coin or rubber stamp; counter-rotate each letter back upright (tangent off) and it reads like numbers on a clock face. Same geometry, two very different moods.