Type & code

Kinetic type

Your word, letter by letter: each glyph arrives on its own beat, alive on video.

Kinetic type: a type & code effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Kinetic type in the studio

Controls

text
The word that is set. The one thing here a person invents
size
A number from 0.04 to 0.6, 0.18 by default.
motion
Four different arrivals: from below, out of the plane, out of a point, or a wave — the only one that never finishes
phase
How far the movement has got. Zero is before the letters arrive, one is all of them in place
speed
How fast the phase runs on video. At zero the movement holds still and only the knob moves it
stagger
How much later each letter starts, which is what makes the setting kinetic. At zero the whole word moves as one picture
fill
Photo makes the word a window into the picture; ink sets it in one colour. Two answers to what matters here
ink
A colour, #101418 by default.
paper
A colour, #f4f1e8 by default.
centre x
A number from 0 to 1, 0.5 by default.
centre y
A number from 0 to 1, 0.5 by default.
weight
A number from 100 to 900, 700 by default.

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