Kinetic Typography

Kinetic typography sets type in motion: animated letterforms, kinetic posters and moving wordmarks.

Kinetic typography is type set in motion: letters that move, stretch, split or rearrange so that the animation adds meaning to the words. The best pieces stay legible while the motion builds rhythm, and they get their energy from the letterforms themselves rather than from effects. This page gathers animated posters, wordmarks, type experiments and title sequences, most made in Cavalry and After Effects and some written in code, by motion designers and studios such as Yonsan Kim, Daan Vissers and Studio Dumbar.

72 works by 46 creators, newest added 11 November 2026. Each is credited to the people who made it and links to the original.

All 72 Kinetic Typography

Bitstack Coins by Anagram — 3D motion design for the Bitstack rebrand, where gold bitcoins and spiralling type carry its lines Reclaim the horizon and The future compounds, for a bitcoin savings app.
Metaball Date by Daan Vissers — A daily kinetic typography entry made in Cavalry, a first take on text on path, where the date of 8 November 2026 rides a gooey ribbon of metaballs that splits and merges back.
Slot Field by Yousuf Soomro — Slot Field, a React component for type from the upcoming Kainat library, where one word holds still as real lines of HTML open around it and a field of pixel blocks fills the gap.
Typography Animation (Motion Study) by Felix Hackmann — A kinetic typography study on Form folgt Vorstellungskraft, form follows imagination, a twist on form follows function, its words scattered and clipped by masks before they regroup.
anagram.club by Anagram — The launch film of a branding studio's new portfolio website, where giant kinetic type spells Discover New Website and case studies orbit before We shape brands that need no introduction.
Gumroad Type Outlines by Motion Dude — Kinetic typography for Gumroad left unfinished, its letters kept as bezier outlines with anchor points and guides, so the construction of the wordmark becomes the animation itself.
Falling AI Buzzwords by Emanuele Colombo — A physics-driven kinetic typography piece that piles up the slogans of the AI rush, from Embrace A.I. to Vibe code, until You've been laid off drops onto the top of the heap.
Custom Web Framework by Aristide Benoist — Website sections running on a creative development framework written from scratch in Rust and JavaScript, where a timing engine and a WebGPU mirror make painting galleries twist and bulge.
Opt Out by Mat Voyce — A kinetic typography loop urging artists to object to Meta training generative AI on their public posts, OPT and OUT swelling by turns into spiky letters like a shout of protest.
Some Things Look Weird by Schultzschultz — A digital typography tool built with creative coding, where the cursor acts as a fisheye lens that inflates thin capitals into fat extruded letters, turning 2D type into 3D as it passes.
Find a Why by Jack Forrest — A kinetic typography piece after a setup by Antonin Waterkeyn, where a mirrored column of everyday chores collapses into Find a light, then grows into a large Find a why.
Ribbed Glass Letter a by Fabio Sasso — A kinetic typography loop made in ascente, where a bold lowercase a breaks into ribbed glass strips with colour fringes, the kind of refraction effect once kept for motion designers.
Boo by Mat Voyce — Halloween lettering animated by hand, BOO! in wobbly glowing letters whose two Os take turns becoming a startled ghost, the grain and boil keeping it alive like a drawing.
Zaha Hadid Foundation Graphic Language by Experimental Jetset — A graphic language for the Zaha Hadid Foundation in London that replaces a fixed logo with a typographic system, the Foundation’s name mutating as a distorting grid folds beneath it.
Allo x Grok Bot by Buffet Teeravaj — A launch video for Allo x Grok Bot, an AI phone line that answers calls, texts customers and prepares call-backs, starring a small black mascot who puts on a headset to get to work.
Aperios Design Services by Alex Aperios — A services section for a London brand and web studio’s website, animated with Jitter, where a red scrolling list of skills runs past small windows that flick from project to project.
HyperColour by Yonsan Kim — Kinetic typography made in Cavalry and sold as a remixable file on Scenery, where blue streaks of light rise from the word like an aurora and burn its letters white each time they surge.
PLAY AGAIN by Sithum Mihiranga — A gaming-inspired motion design loop in After Effects, where a handheld console breaks into a grid of colour panels and kinetic type that keeps moving as if pressing play once more.
Cellular Type Arrows by Yonsan Kim — A Cavalry motion study from a cellular type series, arrows packed with soft Voronoi cells that drift and split while waves of black roll through, an exercise in colour blending.
Cellular Type Numbered Arrow by Yonsan Kim — Kinetic typography in Cavalry from a cellular type series, an arrow filled with numbered Voronoi cells that shift and resize as it moves from pale blue to navy to glowing white.
Aeonik Super Magnetic by Hawaii Design — A kinetic typography specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, where VHS tape echo becomes a type effect: each jump of the word Super leaves a trail of coloured copies.
Aeonik T-120 by Hawaii Design — A VHS-inspired type specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, where tape markings make a motion poster and T-120 breaks into chunky pixels before rebuilding as smooth type.
Aeonik PLAY Cassette by Hawaii Design — A looping kinetic typography specimen for the Aeonik Superfamily of CoType Foundry, set on a VHS cassette label where the four letters of PLAY tumble and swap places between turning reels.
Cellular Type 3 by Yonsan Kim — Kinetic typography in Cavalry, a numeral 3 fractured by a vibe-coded Voronoi algorithm into rounded cells that turns like a card, a bubble-like 2D take on Houdini-style systems.
Cellular Type Orange by Yonsan Kim — A generative type experiment in Cavalry, heavy glyphs fractured into rounded Voronoi cells by a custom JavaScript Deformer, the heat travelling across them from cream to ember red.
Cellular Type A by Yonsan Kim — A cellular type experiment in Cavalry, a letter A fractured into Voronoi cells that light up from the counter outward, so colour seems to grow through the letterform like living tissue.
Revealing Letters by Anna Fay — A kinetic typography study in negative space, where a bold S exists only as the gap left in a field of tiny s letters, swelling, thinning to a hairline and then closing up again.
Brain Fog by Yonsan Kim — A kinetic typography study in Cavalry that spells brain fog with its new blur filters, the bold words rolling in and out of focus in waves, from a series named I have brain fog.
Brain Fog Haze by Yonsan Kim — A kinetic type loop made in Cavalry where the word haze is never quite in focus, a new blur filter smearing it, sharpening it to a glow, then thinning it to outlines.
Brain Fog Alien by Yonsan Kim — A Cavalry motion study in kinetic typography where the word alien, traced in dotted points, fills with sliding gradients and blur, a technique inspired by Fafa Zhu.
Chill Sans by Chill Type — A kinetic type specimen for Chill Sans, a geo-humanist grotesk that runs from bold softness to light airiness, its glyphs swapping inside selection frames as in a design tool.
WebGPU Morphing Engine by Aristide Benoist — A WebGPU morphing engine for page transitions, written into a custom Rust framework, where glyphs, numbers and outlines melt into one another through chromatic post-processing.
Feedback You Can Pick Up by Alim Joldaspayev — A chat interface micro-interaction for client feedback, where the words of a request are picked up one by one from the message and dropped into the reply as a quote.
Semantic Rain by Kat Zhang — A piece of creative coding in kinetic typography, 言雨 or semantic rain, where written characters fall as rain on a figure drawn in dots and ripple into rings at its feet.
TWK Burns Outlines by Nolan Paparelli — A type specimen film for TWK Burns, a geometric sans for Weltkern now in 10 weights from Hairline to Ultra with Italics, its Bézier outlines swelling until the strokes overlap.
TWK Burns Weights by Nolan Paparelli — A type specimen animation for TWK Burns, a geometric sans serif for Weltkern after Century Gothic and ITC Avant Garde, whose 10 weights run from Hairline to strokes that overlap.
Typography Physics by Nicolas Mariotti — A kinetic typography study in physics, where every letter of the alphabet is a body that falls, collides and rolls with the others, the heap tumbling as if in a spinning drum.
Tornado Text Reveal by Özer Gökalpsezer — A kinetic typography text reveal in which letters whirl in a tornado and peel off the funnel into their lines, made for interior.dev, a library of free micro-interactions.
Motion Basics by Dutch Design Agency — A kinetic typography loop that puts the principles of motion into practice, squash, anticipation, arcs and timing, as pink capitals drop out of line and fall back into rows.
CupClub App Design by Nicolas Mariotti — Huge black words wrap around cartoon characters on two floating iPhones: a laughing cup in Latte, a bean in Free Drink, then Kiwi Mochi and Order Bonus.
Light Trail Countdown by David Szakaly — A looping kinetic typography countdown titled 261004, drawn with light: bright points trace each numeral from 9 to 0, their long-exposure trails lingering like afterimages.
Bounding Box Date by Daan Vissers — Kinetic typography made in Cavalry for day 147 of a 365-day motion series, the date set along the edges of a bounding box that never keeps its shape, words bending with each side.
Afternow Identity by Afternow — The new name and identity of Afternow, the digital agency born on the Croatian island of Krk and long known as Balkan Brothers, told in display letters cut with notches and ink traps.
Typographic Rubik’s Cube by Filippo Quattrucci — A Rubik’s Cube with letters from A to F in place of colours, turned into a generative type tool: every twist of its faces recombines them into a new, impossible letter.
Spatial Festival 2025 by Mallandrich — An animated poster for Spatial, the Berlin festival of immersive and spatial sound at Funkhaus, whose type is projected into 3D space and pulled into a tunnel, as sound fills a room.
Triangle X by Clemens Makoschitz — A kinetic typography practice piece in After Effects, where a bold X is assembled from small triangles that slide like a pattern, letting the letter shrink and swell without breaking.
SwimClub Numerals by Center — Custom numerals for SwimClub, a male fertility supplement, built from tiles that recall both DNA bases and the lanes of an Olympic pool, set in motion as an animated type specimen.
Aithyra Scales by Studio Dumbar — Kinetic typography for Aithyra, a European institute using AI to transform biomedical science, rolling through the scales of life from molecular to public health, set in Denim.
Aithyra Elementaries by Studio Dumbar — The elementaries of Aithyra’s identity, modular dots and pills whose motion borrows from laboratory research as they transform, carry words and generate type for the AI institute.
Sliced Glass Effect by Robert Matyas — A sliced glass effect made in After Effects, from a motion design tutorial: a numeral seen through sliding strips of fluted glass breaks into offset slices, then realigns.
Grow Your Memories by Aiden — A kinetic typography promo film for the One Year app, made in After Effects, that treats memories like a garden: hand-drawn words bloom one by one until a flower becomes the logo.
Pulvinar and Dumont Templates by Satto.studio — The launch film of two Framer portfolio templates, one cinematic for video and photography, one calm and editorial, told through a dot-matrix P that keeps flickering into a D.
Phased Gradient Dates by Yonsan Kim — Kinetic typography made in Cavalry that smears the dates of a week of studio visits in Amsterdam and Rotterdam with phased gradients, the type sharpening and dissolving in turn.
Phased Gradient Amsterdam by Yonsan Kim — Kinetic typography in Cavalry where phased gradients of red and lavender rise from the word Amsterdam and pulse through it, a souvenir of a week visiting the city’s design studios.
Physical Clocks by Lucas Hesse — Kinetic typography where clock faces are built from type alone, the numbers and words for one to twelve tumbling under something like gravity before landing in their place.
On One Million Followers by Skala Design — Kinetic typography for the sports brand On, celebrating its first million followers: the phrase itself, repeated in tiny letters, packs together into the On logo and a running shoe.
Scattered Letters Effect by Made With GSAP — A GSAP text animation effect for image galleries, where small photos slide through a sentence and its letters scatter up and down to let them pass before settling back in line.
Ringwriter by Edoardo Lunardi — An interactive kinetic typography experiment drawn in a single draw call, where text coils around rings spinning at their own speeds, melting into dots near the cursor, rippling on release.
Soirée [2] Invite by Paul Soulhiard — Kinetic typography for the invitation to a second Paris web and creative community soirée, where bracketed serif words drift into focus one after another, like a lens finding them.
Luminance Blur by Antonin Waterkeyn — Kinetic typography made in the Cavalry beta to test its new Luminance Blur effect, a rounded number 2 in GT Maru Mono melting into light and redrawing itself in other weights.
Paris Creative Drinks Invite by Paul Soulhiard — Kinetic typography for an invitation to terrace drinks with the Paris web and creative community, where words like Soirée, Freelance and Agence tumble and pile up in a serif face.
Magmae Typeface by Arillatype.Studio — A type specimen film for Magmæ, an industrial sans serif in 18 styles from Air to Super, where flowing lava turns every letter it touches bolder, showing the weights as heat.
Supreme Variable Type by Brandon Fretwell — A variable font study in 3D type, built between After Effects and Cinema 4D, where the Supreme logotype set in Extenda stretches and squeezes through layers of glossy red plastic.
Infinite Date by Daan Vissers — Kinetic typography made in Cavalry that turns a date into an infinite zoom, the digits of 10.16.26 splitting and scaling without end, part of a daily motion practice.
The Source of Next by andstudio — Kinetic typography for the Source identity, where waves of letter spacing ripple down a column of The source of next, data shown connecting, shifting and growing layer by layer.
WebGPU Type Explorations by Aristide Benoist — Kinetic typography experiments in WebGPU, research for upcoming projects with Brijan Powell, where dates, a Latin inscription and heavy wordmarks warp, fold and smear in real time.
Sliced Numeral Clock by Daniel Maarleveld — A kinetic typography clock concept made with a custom p5.js tool that cuts letters into isometric blocks and morphs one into another, so each digit rebuilds itself as the next.
Date Propeller by Daan Vissers — A date animation made in Cavalry for a daily motion practice, a simple scale animation that turns the day, month and year into the blades of a spinning black propeller.
Path Finder by Daan Vissers — Kinetic typography in Cavalry for a daily motion practice, where a path finder and a value array send the date along the edges of a black shape that keeps morphing between polygons.
Stardust Space by Alex Turner — Kinetic typography in After Effects and Cavalry that tests the range of Stardust, a variable Newglyph typeface by Ian Party, as one word swells from condensed to wide and back.
Losing Track of Time by Jack Forrest — Kinetic typography and a motion study of time slipping out of order, where clock faces built from oversized bold numerals stretch and stack while the hands keep turning on flat colour.
Floating Date Coin by Daan Vissers — Kinetic typography in 3D type for day 180 of a 365-day motion series, where the date becomes a set of outlined coins spinning in electric blue, built from nothing but simple 3D and strokes.

Featuring work by

Yonsan Kim, Daan Vissers, Aristide Benoist, Hawaii Design, Anagram, Mat Voyce, Jack Forrest, Nolan Paparelli, Nicolas Mariotti, Studio Dumbar, Paul Soulhiard, Yousuf Soomro, Felix Hackmann, Motion Dude, Emanuele Colombo, Schultzschultz, Fabio Sasso, Experimental Jetset, Buffet Teeravaj, Alex Aperios, Sithum Mihiranga, Anna Fay, Chill Type, Alim Joldaspayev, Kat Zhang, Özer Gökalpsezer, Dutch Design Agency, David Szakaly, Afternow, Filippo Quattrucci, Mallandrich, Clemens Makoschitz, Center, Robert Matyas, Aiden, Satto.studio, Lucas Hesse, Skala Design, Made With GSAP, Edoardo Lunardi, Antonin Waterkeyn, Arillatype.Studio, Brandon Fretwell, andstudio, Daniel Maarleveld, Alex Turner.

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