Ours
Kinetic words
Big words that slam in one after another, the last one in your accent.
16:9 · 3 s · You change: words (one line each)Templates
Kinetic typography templates
Words that move with the voice: titles, hooks, chapter cards and big statements.
Kinetic typography is text that moves to carry meaning: words slam in on the beat, a title writes itself on, a chapter number rises behind a line. These templates take your words and animate them for you; there's nothing to keyframe.
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All 15 text animations
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- Ours
Title card
A kicker, a headline that rises in word by word, and a line under it.
16:9 · 4 s · You change: small line above, headline, line under it 
OursTypewriter
A line typed out letter by letter with a blinking cursor.
16:9 · 4 s · You change: text
OursChapter
A big chapter number and its title, revealed behind a line.
16:9 · 3 s · You change: number, title
OursQuote
A quote that comes into focus, then who said it.
16:9 · 5 s · You change: quote, who said it
OursStinger
A one-second accent sweep with a word, between two parts of the video.
16:9 · 1 s · You change: wordWeight Wave
A crest of thickness travels along a headline: each character swells from light to black and leans forward as the wave passes, driven by the wght and slnt variable-font axes rather than by transforms.
16:9 · 6 s · You change: headline, text color, background, weight (rest)…
Split-Flap Board
Solari-style departure board: every cell walks its drum forward through the intervening characters of a fixed alphabet until it lands on its target, so the text resolves as a mechanical cascade instead of a fade.
16:9 · 4 s · You change: board text, flap alphabet (drum order), seconds per flap, per-cell start stagger…
Chromatic Fringe Title
Display title on a transparent root: blur-focus entrance, red/blue fringe that settles then breathes, perspective bow, slow scale drift
16:9 · 6 s
Handwritten Title
Handwritten display text with a scalar-driven word-by-word highlight sweep and a seeded squiggle underline sized to the text; boils
16:9 · 6 sHandwritten Write-On Title
True glyph write-on: filled Caveat letterforms revealed by baked per-glyph centerline strokes traced in real stroke order with a curvature-adaptive pen-velocity ease (fast on straights, slow into curves, inter-stroke pen lifts); optional squiggle underline; boils
16:9 · 6 s
Text Along a Path
Handwriting flowing along any SVG path with a per-character reveal; the path is the only geometry input
16:9 · 6 s
Speech Bubble
Hand-drawn speech bubble with a positionable tail: outline draws on, paper fill fades in, handwritten text types per character; boils
16:9 · 6 s
Word-Sweep Highlight
A sentence whose word-by-word emphasis is driven by a single scalar — tween it to sync the highlight with a voiceover
16:9 · 8 s
Extruded Logo
Beveled 3D letters flip up one by one, the word swings so light runs across the bevels, then settles for a readable hold. Chrome, gold or matte.
16:9 · 5 s · You change: word or lettermark, tagline, finish, rim light…
Blocks marked Ours are UGCLive's. The rest are from HeyGen's open-source HyperFrames registry (Apache-2.0, commit 1c3fcf4), with their authors' descriptions.
Where text animation earns its place
The opening seconds: a kinetic hook of three or four words stops the scroll before the voice has finished its first sentence. Chapter changes in a long video: a chapter card tells the viewer a new part has started, which keeps ten-minute videos easy to follow.
Big statements: one sentence that matters, on its own card, lands harder than the same words in the captions.
Handwritten and editorial styles
The handwritten set draws the words on like a pen: a write-on title, text that follows a curved path, a speech bubble and a sketched frame around a picture. They suit explainers, study channels and anything that wants to feel made by hand.
In a script video, titles come by themselves
When you paste a script, the planner marks the lines that deserve a card: a "Chapter two" line becomes a chapter card, a quotation becomes a quote card, and a landscape video opens on a kinetic title. You can change the words of every one in the scene editor.
Questions
What is kinetic typography?
Animated text where the motion itself carries the meaning: words that appear in time with speech, grow on emphasis or move to show an idea. It's used in titles, lyric videos, ads and explainers.
Can I use my own font?
Our blocks use the editor's burned-in faces (a grotesk, a condensed display face, a serif, a rounded face and a marker). Library blocks can keep their own typography or take your video's font.
How long are the animations?
Most run three to eight seconds. A card's length is its clip on the timeline, so trimming it changes how long it holds.
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Updated 29 October 2026
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