Terminal lyric video style
Lyrics typed out line by line on a glowing screen, with a cursor.
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How Terminal moves
Terminal is kinetic typography: the lyrics are the hero and fill the frame. It sets them as text typed out letter by letter, scrolling up like a terminal. Each line cuts to the next. As it plays, the word being sung changes colour. They are set in glowing letters.
On the beat, and the finish
On the song's hits the lyrics split into red and cyan, slice and jump. A quiet song barely moves it; a drop hits hard. Spectrum bars move with the music along the bottom. The picture is finished with flickering CRT scanlines. It shows a minimal progress line. A title card opens the video before the first line and closes it after the last.
Your song in Terminal
Every word is timed to the vocals, so each one moves when it is sung. Every Look in this style keeps these moves and brings its own picture, colours and type, in 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 16:9 for YouTube and 1:1 for posts. Start from one of its Looks, or let the director design a new Look in this style for your song.
Terminal Looks
Looks made in Terminal, Official ones first. Open one to watch it play, then make your lyric video with it.
More lyric styles
Punch
Word by word
One huge word at a time, hitting on the beat, with the line underneath.
Depth scatter
Scattered in depth
Words float in at different depths and sharpen into focus.
Neon
Lines
Glowing tube-light lyrics with a spectrum glowing below.
Cinematic
Lines
Elegant titles that breathe in and out of focus between cinema bars.
Player
Scrolling sheet
A music-app lyric sheet that scrolls with the song, with cover and progress bar.
Lo-fi
Lines
Soft words drifting up over grain and dust, with a quiet progress bar.