cixzhang · Nov 5, 2026 · Nov 4, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026 · Nov 5, 2026
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+---
+'@astryxdesign/core': patch
+'@astryxdesign/cli': patch
+---
+
+[feat] Motion: a theme's `tempo` now times the springs of touch motion as well as its CSS durations. Each spring keeps its shape and takes `tempo` times as long, and so does the animated-layout glide. Finger tracking and busy loops stay as measured. A theme with only a duration scale keeps its springs at tempo 1, even inside a theme with a tempo. The springs don't follow `character` yet. The motion doc says so.
+
+@vjeux
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+// Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
+
+import {useRef, useState} from 'react';
+import type {Meta, StoryObj} from '@storybook/react';
+import {Collapsible} from '@astryxdesign/core/Collapsible';
+import {useAnimatedLayout} from '@astryxdesign/core/hooks';
+import {ScrollableArea} from '@astryxdesign/core/ScrollableArea';
+import {
+  SegmentedControl,
+  SegmentedControlItem,
+} from '@astryxdesign/core/SegmentedControl';
+import {Slider} from '@astryxdesign/core/Slider';
+import {Switch} from '@astryxdesign/core/Switch';
+import {Theme, defineTheme} from '@astryxdesign/core/theme';
+
+const meta: Meta = {
+  title: 'Core/Theme motion tempo',
+  parameters: {layout: 'padded'},
+};
+
+export default meta;
+
+type Story = StoryObj;
+
+const TEMPOS = [0.75, 1, 1.5] as const;
+
+const THEMES = TEMPOS.map(tempo =>
+  defineTheme({
+    name: `motion-tempo-${String(tempo).replace('.', '-')}`,
+    motion: {tempo},
+  }),
+);
+
+const NAMES: Record<(typeof TEMPOS)[number], string> = {
+  0.75: 'Tempo 0.75, the quickest',
+  1: "Tempo 1, Astryx's own",
+  1.5: 'Tempo 1.5, the slowest',
+};
+
+const card = {
+  display: 'grid',
+  gap: 16,
+  padding: 12,
+  borderRadius: 12,
+  border: '1px solid var(--color-border)',
+  background: 'var(--color-background-surface)',
+  color: 'var(--color-text-primary)',
+  fontFamily: 'var(--font-family-body)',
+  fontSize: 14,
+} as const;
+
+const title = {
+  margin: '0 0 6px',
+  fontSize: 12,
+  fontWeight: 600,
+  color: 'var(--color-text-secondary)',
+  fontFamily: 'var(--font-family-body)',
+} as const;
+
+/**
+ * Details that open with a glide: the content after them glides on the tempo
+ * of the theme they are in.
+ */
+function Details({label}: {label: string}) {
+  const containerRef = useRef<HTMLDivElement>(null);
+  const animatedLayout = useAnimatedLayout({containerRef});
+  return (
+    <ScrollableArea ref={containerRef} height={180} label={label}>
+      <Collapsible
+        trigger="Shipping details"
+        defaultIsOpen={false}
+        animatedLayout={animatedLayout}>
+        <p style={{margin: '4px 0'}}>Ships in 2 business days.</p>
+        <p style={{margin: '4px 0'}}>Free returns for 30 days.</p>
+      </Collapsible>
+      <p data-after-collapsible style={{margin: '8px 0 0'}}>
+        The content after it glides on the theme&apos;s tempo.
+      </p>
+    </ScrollableArea>
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * One theme's controls: their touch springs and the Collapsible's glide play
+ * at the theme's tempo.
+ */
+function Row({index}: {index: number}) {
+  const tempo = TEMPOS[index];
+  const [isOn, setIsOn] = useState(false);
+  const [volume, setVolume] = useState(40);
+  const [view, setView] = useState('day');
+  return (
+    <section data-tempo={tempo} style={{margin: '0 0 20px', maxWidth: 420}}>
+      <div style={title}>{NAMES[tempo]}</div>
+      <Theme theme={THEMES[index]} mode="light">
+        <div style={card}>
+          <Switch label="Wi-Fi" value={isOn} onChange={setIsOn} />
+          <Slider label="Volume" value={volume} onChange={setVolume} />
+          <SegmentedControl value={view} onChange={setView} label="Range">
+            <SegmentedControlItem value="day" label="Day" />
+            <SegmentedControlItem value="week" label="Week" />
+            <SegmentedControlItem value="month" label="Month" />
+          </SegmentedControl>
+          <Details label={`Details at tempo ${tempo}`} />
+        </div>
+      </Theme>
+    </section>
+  );
+}
+
+/**
+ * The same controls under three themes that set only `motion.tempo`. On a
+ * touch screen, try each row: toggle the switch, drag the slider, slide the
+ * segments and open the details. Every spring and the glide take the tempo
+ * times their own time.
+ */
+export const ThreeTempos: Story = {
+  name: 'Three tempos',
+  render: () => (
+    <div>
+      {TEMPOS.map((tempo, index) => (
+        <Row key={tempo} index={index} />
+      ))}
+    </div>
+  ),
+};
+
+/** A theme that sets only a duration scale, as an existing theme does. */
+const durationScaleTheme = defineTheme({
+  name: 'motion-duration-scale',
+  motion: {fast: 130, medium: 310, ratio: 0.75},
+});
+
+/**
+ * A theme with only a duration scale, nested in a theme at tempo 1.5. Its
+ * glide keeps the pace of its own durations, as on a page with no tempo. The
+ * glide beside it, in the outer theme, takes 1.5 times as long.
+ */
+export const NestedDurationScale: Story = {
+  name: 'A duration scale nested in a tempo',
+  render: () => (
+    <div style={{maxWidth: 420}}>
+      <section data-row="plain" style={{margin: '0 0 20px'}}>
+        <div style={title}>No theme tempo</div>
+        <div style={card}>
+          <Details label="Details with no theme tempo" />
+        </div>
+      </section>
+      <Theme theme={THEMES[TEMPOS.indexOf(1.5)]} mode="light">
+        <section data-row="outer" style={{margin: '0 0 20px'}}>
+          <div style={title}>Tempo 1.5</div>
+          <div style={card}>
+            <Details label="Details at tempo 1.5" />
+          </div>
+        </section>
+        <Theme theme={durationScaleTheme} mode="light">
+          <section data-row="nested" style={{margin: '0 0 20px'}}>
+            <div style={title}>A duration scale inside tempo 1.5</div>
+            <div style={card}>
+              <Details label="Details in a duration scale" />
+            </div>
+          </section>
+        </Theme>
+      </Theme>
+    </div>
+  ),
+};
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export const docs = {
           ['typography.scale', '--text-heading-*-size/weight/leading, --text-body-size/weight/leading', 'base (px), ratio'],
           ['typography.body/heading/code', '--font-family-body, --font-family-heading, --font-family-code', 'family, fallbacks?, url?, weight?'],
           ['radius', '--radius-inner, --radius-element, --radius-container, --radius-page, --radius-chat', 'base (px), multiplier (0–2)'],
-          ['motion', 'Every --duration-* token, --ease-entrance and --ease-move (springs don\'t read them yet)', 'tempo? (0.75–1.5), character? (crisp|standard|expressive); and/or a duration scale: fast (ms), medium (ms), ratio, slow?, easing?. The scale wins over tempo for the durations it sets, and explicit tokens win over both. Fixed whatever the knobs say: drags and momentum, rubber band, keyboard, press onset/cancel/flash, hover intent, gesture thresholds, Spinner/Skeleton loops, the 200 ms Reduce Motion cap. See {@link generic:motion}.'],
+          ['motion', 'Every --duration-* token, --ease-entrance and --ease-move (tempo also times the touch springs)', 'tempo? (0.75–1.5), character? (crisp|standard|expressive); and/or a duration scale: fast (ms), medium (ms), ratio, slow?, easing?. The scale wins over tempo for the durations it sets, and explicit tokens win over both. Fixed whatever the knobs say: drags and momentum, rubber band, keyboard, press onset/cancel/flash, hover intent, gesture thresholds, Spinner/Skeleton loops, the 200 ms Reduce Motion cap. See {@link generic:motion}.'],
         ]},
         {type: 'prose', text: 'For dark mode tuples in token values, see the Dark mode section of {@link generic:use-a-theme}.'},
       ],

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ const styles = stylex.create({
       content: [
         {
           type: 'prose',
-          text: "A theme sets how motion feels with two knobs in `defineTheme`'s `motion`. They drive the CSS motion tokens; the springs of touch motion don't read them yet. Every theme follows each person's Reduce Motion setting; no theme loosens it.",
+          text: "A theme sets how motion feels with two knobs in `defineTheme`'s `motion`. They drive the CSS motion tokens, and `tempo` also times the springs of touch motion; those springs don't follow `character` yet. Every theme follows each person's Reduce Motion setting; no theme loosens it.",
         },
         {
           type: 'list',

@@ -181,8 +181,8 @@ export const myTheme = defineTheme({
   radius: {base: 4, multiplier: 1},
 
   /**
-   * Motion. Two knobs set how its CSS feels (touch springs don't read them
-   * yet):
+   * Motion. Two knobs set how it feels. tempo also times the touch springs;
+   * character sets only the CSS curves for now:
    *   tempo — 1 is Astryx's own; 0.75 the quickest, 1.5 the slowest.
    *   character — 'crisp' | 'standard' | 'expressive': the entrance and move
    *     curves (--ease-entrance, --ease-move). --ease-exit, the curve for

@@ -705,7 +705,10 @@ test('a theme\u2019s tempo leaves the reduced-motion pulse unscaled', async ({
     `${storybook.origin}/iframe.html?id=${INDETERMINATE}&viewMode=story`,
   );
   await expect(page.getByRole('progressbar').first()).toBeVisible();
-  await page.addStyleTag({content: ':root { --_astryx-motion-tempo: 1.5; }'});
+  // On the bar itself: the story's theme root declares its own tempo.
+  await page.addStyleTag({
+    content: '[role="progressbar"] { --_astryx-motion-tempo: 1.5; }',
+  });
   const durations = await page.evaluate(() =>
     Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('[role="progressbar"]')).map(track =>
       Number(

@@ -186,7 +186,10 @@ test('a theme\u2019s tempo scales the move', async ({page}) => {
   // A theme with a tempo writes it beside its tokens. The move's duration is
   // the role times the share moved, times the tempo.
   await open(page, 10);
-  await page.addStyleTag({content: ':root { --_astryx-motion-tempo: 1.5; }'});
+  // On the bar itself: the story's theme root declares its own tempo.
+  await page.addStyleTag({
+    content: '[role="progressbar"] { --_astryx-motion-tempo: 1.5; }',
+  });
   await changeAndPause(page, 90);
   const duration = await page.evaluate(() => {
     const fill = document.querySelector('[role="progressbar"]')

@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
  * @input vitest (jsdom), useSwitchTouch.ts's controller, and a recording
  *   stand-in for the compositor animator
  * @output Unit tests for what Switch's touch presentation asks the animator
- *   to do: a value change mid-fade swaps the colour layer on its running
- *   clock (a rebase), never from rest
+ *   to do. A value change mid-fade swaps the colour layer on its running
+ *   clock (a rebase), never from rest. A press's settle takes the theme's
+ *   tempo, as its lift does
  * @position Testing; the controller's calls, without a browser. The motion
  *   itself is proven in __tests__/Switch.interaction.browser.spec.ts and on
  *   the iOS simulator
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@
 import {afterEach, describe, expect, it, vi} from 'vitest';
 
 import type * as AnimatorModule from '../motion/animator';
+import type {MotionCurve} from '../motion/animator';
 
 interface Call {
   readonly name: string;
@@ -236,3 +238,43 @@ describe('the colour layer when the value changes', () => {
     expect(fade.calls).toEqual([]);
   });
 });
+
+describe("the press's lift and settle at the theme's tempo", () => {
+  /** The release curve's length when the thumb's theme plays at `tempo`. */
+  function settleSeconds(tempo: number): number {
+    const style = document.createElement('style');
+    style.textContent = `.paced { --_astryx-motion-tempo: ${tempo}; }`;
+    document.head.append(style);
+    const {controller, track} = mount();
+    const thumbElement = track.firstElementChild as HTMLElement;
+    thumbElement.className = 'paced';
+    const thumb = animators.find(
+      animator =>
+        animator.element === thumbElement && animator.pseudoElement == null,
+    );
+    if (thumb == null) {
+      throw new Error('no thumb animator');
+    }
+    // A press released at once: the settle waits out the minimum lift.
+    const press = controller as unknown as {
+      lift(time: number): void;
+      settle(time: number, touchRelease: boolean): void;
+    };
+    press.lift(0);
+    press.settle(0, false);
+    const play = thumb.calls.find(call => call.name === 'play');
+    const curve = (play?.args[0] as Record<string, MotionCurve>).scaleX;
+    document.body.innerHTML = '';
+    document.head.innerHTML = '';
+    animators.length = 0;
+    return curve.duration;
+  }
+
+  it('waits the minimum lift and settles on springs that all take the tempo times as long', () => {
+    const atOne = settleSeconds(1);
+    // The minimum lift alone is 235 ms, so the curve is on screen.
+    expect(atOne).toBeGreaterThan(0.235);
+    expect(settleSeconds(1.5) / atOne).toBeCloseTo(1.5, 6);
+    expect(settleSeconds(0.75) / atOne).toBeCloseTo(0.75, 6);
+  });
+});
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import {
 import {solveSpring, toSpring, type SpringDescription} from '../motion/spring';
 import {UIKIT_GESTURES} from '../motion/uikit/gestures';
 import {registerSwitchTable, switchControl} from '../motion/uikit/switch';
+import {resolveMotion} from '../motion/resolveMotion';
 import {useTouchPresentation} from '../utils/touchPresentation';
 import {awaitBrowserClick, clickForLift} from '../utils/browserClickWait';
 import {armClickGuard} from '../utils/clickGuard';
@@ -891,9 +892,16 @@ export class SwitchTouchController {
       return;
     }
     this.liftTime = null;
-    const lift = switchControl.lift;
-    const settle = switchControl.settle;
-    this.settleAt = settleTime(time, liftTime);
+    // The lift played these roles at the thumb's tempo, so the settle and the
+    // minimum lift take that tempo too.
+    const element = this.thumb?.element;
+    const lift = resolveMotion(element, switchControl.lift);
+    const settle = resolveMotion(element, switchControl.settle);
+    this.settleAt = settleTime(
+      time,
+      liftTime,
+      resolveMotion(element, switchControl, 'minimumLiftMs'),
+    );
     const hold = (this.settleAt - time) / 1000;
     const play = (
       animator: Animator | null,
@@ -962,8 +970,8 @@ export class SwitchTouchController {
           rest: held ? keep : 1,
           holdSeconds: held ? 0 : hold,
           threshold: 1e-4,
-          lift: switchControl.lift,
-          settle: switchControl.settle,
+          lift: resolveMotion(thumb.element, switchControl.lift),
+          settle: resolveMotion(thumb.element, switchControl.settle),
         }),
       });
     }

@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ names for their use (`springs.settle`, `timing.stateChangeMs`,
 `timing.curves.move`, …): a shared table lists them when it registers
 (`roles`), and every other value, a component's measured spring included, is
 a plain constant. The per-role tables stay internal (`spec:AST-094` DEC-15): a
-role plays its table value, and nothing reads its CSS variable
-(`--motion-springs-settle`), so no page or theme style sets a role. A table's
+role plays its table value at the theme's tempo, and nothing reads the
+role's own CSS variable (`--motion-springs-settle`), so no page or theme
+style sets a role. A table's
 roles exist once its `register<Name>Table()` has run: the animator registers
 the Reduce Motion fade's curve, and code that plays the shared springs calls
 `registerSpringsTable()` before its first motion. The animator resolves each