TITLE: Liquid Chrome Type — Specimen Lab 002

PROMPT: Build a single self-contained HTML page: a typography laboratory where one giant word renders as liquid chrome on a black #0b0c10 ground. Centred full-bleed display word (MOLTEN / QUIET / CHROME / DRIFT) set in Impact / "Arial Narrow" / system-ui 900, clamp(3.3rem,15vw,13rem), line-height .86, letter-spacing -.028em. Every letter is its own span carrying two stacked backgrounds clipped to text: a 10-stop vertical metal gradient (#ffffff, #e8e8ec, #c9ccd4, #6d7280, #3b3f4a, #f6f7fa, #9aa0ad, #3b3f4a, #c9ccd4, #9aa0ad) plus a 300%-wide gold specular band (#f6d365 / #fff8dc) whose background-position animates across a 5.2s linear loop with a per-letter negative animation-delay so the glint travels letter to letter. Behind it: a masked blueprint grid of 1px repeating-linear-gradients, a studio radial light, and a faded scaleY(-1) blurred mirrored copy of the word with a linear-gradient mask. A fixed full-screen canvas paints gravity droplets that spawn from each letter on every word change and fade as they fall, drawn as radial-gradient chrome orbs with a white highlight. Layout: thin ui-monospace control rail top-left with four pill word-switcher buttons, tiny mono caption bottom-right, specimen meta top-right. Per-letter spring physics (ox/oy with velocity, damping 0.0004^dt) give the drop-in bounce, an idle sine bob, and a pointer-velocity ripple that falls off with distance from each letter centre. Palette #0b0c10, #e8e8ec, #9aa0ad, #3b3f4a, #f6d365. Geometry is read once per layout change, never per frame. prefers-reduced-motion stops the loop, freezes the sweep, and places letters at rest.

DESCRIPTION: A chrome specimen plate: one enormous condensed word floating in a dark studio, each letter a slab of brushed metal with a gold glint that walks across the word. Letters fall in on springs, overshoot, settle into a slow breathing bob, and ripple away from the cursor when you drag through them. Droplets of liquid chrome peel off the letters and fall out of frame. The only interface is a hairline mono rail of word pills, so the type is unambiguously the subject.

TECHNIQUES: background-clip:text with layered linear-gradients; per-letter spans with staggered negative animation-delay for a travelling specular sweep; damped spring integration on transform; pointer-velocity impulse with squared distance falloff; DPR-aware canvas with setTransform; gravity droplet particles with radial-gradient shading and highlight dot; masked blueprint grid; scaleY(-1) blur mirror with gradient mask; geometry cached per layout change; visibility gating; prefers-reduced-motion static state.

INTERACTION: Dragging the pointer across the word sends a velocity-driven ripple through the letters, strongest nearest the cursor. Clicking the word, clicking a word pill, or pressing the left/right arrow keys cycles MOLTEN / QUIET / CHROME / DRIFT; each change rebuilds the letters with a fresh spring drop-in and spawns a burst of falling chrome droplets, and updates the mono specimen caption. Word pills show their pressed state and lift on hover. Tab visibility pauses the animation loop.