- Interaction
- Hover replay
- Category
- Maps & location
- Duration
- 1.33 s
- Frame rate
- 30 fps
- Artboard
- 32 × 32 px
- Lottie size
- 2.0 kB
Life Buoy
Animated life buoy icon
Life Buoy is a 1.33 s micro animation from the maps & location set that plays once on hover, like Navigation and Crosshair. Hover-to-play icons typically liven up arrow links, feature lists, toolbar buttons and landing page cards.
Free under the MIT license · Markdown version · About the files
Use it
npm install react-useanimationsimport UseAnimations from 'react-useanimations';
import lifeBuoy from 'react-useanimations/lib/lifeBuoy';
<UseAnimations animation={lifeBuoy} size={32} />npx shadcn@latest add https://useanimations.com/r/life-buoy.jsonimport { AnimatedLifeBuoy } from '@/components/animations/life-buoy';
<AnimatedLifeBuoy size={24} /><div id="life-buoy-icon" style="width: 48px; height: 48px"></div>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lottie-web@5.13.0/build/player/lottie_light.min.js"></script>
<script>
const el = document.getElementById('life-buoy-icon');
const a = lottie.loadAnimation({ container: el, renderer: 'svg', loop: false, autoplay: false, path: 'https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy.json' });
const motion = matchMedia('(prefers-reduced-motion: reduce)');
el.addEventListener('mouseenter', () => { if (!motion.matches && a.isPaused) a.playSegments([0, a.totalFrames], true); });
</script>Life Buoy runs on the light build, lottie_light.min.js.
import LottieView from 'lottie-react-native';
<LottieView source={{ uri: 'https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy.json' }} autoPlay loop={false} style={{ width: 48, height: 48 }} />import Lottie
LottieView {
await LottieAnimation.loadedFrom(url: URL(string: "https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy.json")!)
}
.playing(loopMode: .playOnce)
.frame(width: 48, height: 48)val composition by rememberLottieComposition(LottieCompositionSpec.Url("https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy.json"))
LottieAnimation(composition, iterations = 1, modifier = Modifier.size(48.dp))import 'package:lottie/lottie.dart';
Lottie.network('https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy.json', width: 48, height: 48, repeat: false)Bundle life-buoy.json with the app to use it offline.
<img src="https://useanimations.com/icons/life-buoy/life-buoy.svg" alt="Life Buoy" width="24" height="24" />Inside <img> the SVG draws black; inline it to follow the text color.
Static SVG
Questions about the Life Buoy icon
›Why doesn't Life Buoy restart on every mouse enter?
A run that has started plays its 1.33 s to the end, so moving in and out quickly doesn't make it stutter; the next enter after that plays it again. Keyboard focus plays it as well; a tap on a touch screen does not.
›Is Life Buoy decorative?
By default it is aria-hidden. Pass aria-label="Life Buoy" to announce it as an image, or leave it hidden when the link or button it sits in has its own text.
›Can Life Buoy play on click instead?
Yes: pass interaction="click-replay". It then replays once from the start on every click unless reduced motion is preferred.