Tooltip UI design examples

Tooltips give icon buttons and unfamiliar terms a short text hint. These examples show the hint on hover and on keyboard focus, keep it open while the pointer is over it, and hide it on Escape without moving focus, as WCAG 1.4.13 asks. The bubble has role="tooltip" and names or describes its trigger. Eight styles, light and dark, HTML and CSS with a few lines of JavaScript. Every example is an original design that comes with its HTML code and a DESIGN.md of colour, type and spacing tokens, in light and dark. Free to use and adapt.

DeviceAll Web Mobile

StyleAll Minimal Editorial Brutalist Luxury Playful Corporate Retro Monochrome

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16 examples

Web · minimal

Web · editorial

Web · brutalist

Web · luxury

Web · playful

Web · corporate

Web · retro

Web · monochrome

Mobile · minimal

Mobile · editorial

Mobile · brutalist

Mobile · luxury

Mobile · playful

Mobile · corporate

Mobile · retro

Mobile · monochrome

Tooltip design tips

Never put essential information only in a tooltip; touch screens have no hover.
Keep tooltip text to a short phrase. If it needs a link or a button, use a popover instead.
Use the tooltip as the accessible name of an icon-only button (aria-labelledby) so the label and the hint are the same text.
Keep a disabled button focusable (aria-disabled instead of disabled) when its tooltip explains why it is unavailable.

Questions

Do tooltips work on mobile?

Not reliably, because there is no hover. These examples also show on focus, but for touch screens put important hints in visible text and keep tooltips as a desktop extra.

Which ARIA attributes does a tooltip need?

Give the bubble role="tooltip" and an id, then point to it from the trigger with aria-describedby (or aria-labelledby for an icon-only button). The tooltip must not take focus itself.

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Building with an AI coding agent? Every screen here is also in the free Made Good Designs MCP server: ask Claude, Cursor or ChatGPT to search_ui_screens (e.g. “billing settings, editorial style”), get_ui_flow for a whole journey, and get_ui_screen_code to pull the HTML and DESIGN.md straight into your project.