Video Caption Styles
Type a line and see it in 26 animated caption styles — Hormozi-style word pops, karaoke fills, typewriter, neon, glitch and more. Each sample is rendered by the same code that burns captions into a finished video, so what you preview is what you get. Free to browse, no account needed.
Type your own line and every style below re-renders with it. Free, no account needed.
- HormoziBold, punchy, one word at a time
- TiktokThe familiar bounce-in social look
- KaraokeFills word by word as it is spoken
- TypewriterTypes on, character by character
- NeonGlowing tube-light edges
- GlowSoft halo around every word
- FireWarm flicker on the active word
- LightningSharp electric strike-in
- GlitchDigital tear and offset
- ExplosiveBursts outward on landing
- BounceSprings in with weight
- WaveRolls through the line
- ShakeRattles for emphasis
- RotatingSpins each word into place
- PopQuick scale punch
- BoxedSolid block behind the text
- HighlightMarker sweep under the words
- ZoomPushes in from depth
- ColorfulCycles its own palette · uses its own colours
- 3DExtruded depth and shadow · uses its own colours
- GradientColour ramp across the line
- OutlineStroked, no fill
- TiltshiftShallow-focus blur falloff
- CinematicRestrained, film-subtitle feel
- ClassicPlain and legible
- FadeSimple cross-fade
Why these are real samples, not mockups
A caption style is more than a font and a colour, which is why previewing one properly takes the renderer.
Each style is three separate things: its CSS, an optional per-word markup builder (the typewriter emits one element per character; karaoke and several others nest their markup), and the animation timeline that drives it. A gallery that swapped a CSS class would show a static, half-wrong version of most of them. These samples call the same functions the video pipeline calls, so the preview and the render cannot drift apart.
Picking a style that suits the video
The right choice depends more on pacing and platform than on taste.
- Word-at-a-time styles (Hormozi, pop, zoom) suit fast, spoken-word short form where every word is a beat.
- Karaoke fills the line as it is spoken, which reads well when the audio is music-led or the pacing is slower.
- Typewriter and glitch draw attention to the text itself, so they work for a title card or a cold open more than for a whole video.
- Classic, fade and cinematic stay out of the way — the right default when the picture is doing the work.
- Neon, fire, glow and lightning carry their own colour, so they sit best on darker footage.
How captions get onto a real video here
The sampler is the same styling layer the pipeline uses.
In a real production the words come from the narration track rather than from a text box, timed per word, and the style you choose is applied across every scene. Captions are one part of the composition — alongside the scenes themselves, the voice track and music — and can be changed after the fact without regenerating the video, because the composition is edited rather than re-rendered from scratch.
Related
- The caption styles, explainedWhich style suits which kind of video, grouped by the job it does.
- AI captionsHow captions are generated, timed and edited on a real production.
- AI video cost calculatorWhat a finished video costs, by engine, duration and resolution.
- AI video generatorGenerate a clip from a reference image and a description of the motion.
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