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Seventeen animated caption looks for talking heads, podcasts, ads, lyric and short-form videos (karaoke fill, active-word pop and colour, sliding pill, word tiles, frosted glass, neon, serif italic, white card, bounce and tilted word cards and more), each with presets in exact numbers: font (OFL), size per format, words per screen, active-word timing 1-2 frames before the voice, 9:16 safe box, contrast, padding and easing. The rules come from the Netflix and BBC subtitle guides, the DCMP Captioning Key, ITU sync tolerances, eye-tracking research and short-form editors. Use when someone asks for TikTok, Reels or Shorts captions, word-by-word or highlighted subtitles, karaoke captions, or 'captions like Hormozi / MrBeast / podcasts'. NOT for transcription itself (use WhisperX or ElevenLabs speech-to-text first), translation, or plain SRT delivery without styling.

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# Caption styles: 17 looks, built the way the pros set subtitles

Seventeen caption looks with presets you can apply as numbers, not adjectives. Pick how the words are chunked first (a phrase, a group of words or one word at a time), then the look. Every look ships with a plain version that is accessible, since styled word-tracking captions trade some comprehension for attention.

## Gates

- **Word timings first.** Build from word-level timestamps (WhisperX, ElevenLabs Scribe, a forced aligner on the script). Never estimate word times from text length.
- **Chunking before look.** Phrase captions by default; one word at a time only for hooks, punchlines and clips of 20 s or less.
- **Readable on a phone.** Keep text inside the 9:16 safe box and at 4.5:1 contrast against what sits behind it; the shared file has the numbers.
- **Accessible deliverable.** Offer a plain phrase SRT/VTT next to the styled render.
- **Free fonts only.** Every font in the presets is OFL or Apache. Swap in the person's brand font only if they have a license for video.
- **Seek-safe.** Every value is a function of timeline time; randomness is seeded by frame. No `Date.now()`, `requestAnimationFrame` or unseeded `Math.random()`.
- **No credits here.** These templates render locally for free. Generated footage, voice or music is the varg-ai skill: call `estimate_cost` and wait for the person's approval before any generation.