50 Visually Stunning Examples of Motion Typography
Whether or not you know it, you see typography as soon as you wake up each morning. Typography can be found all product packaging, most products, and is a huge influence on our lives, despite some that don’t find it as fascinating as others.
Kinetic typography, or video that integrates typography into a video format, has grown in popularity, and is a great example of how basic spoken words can be adapted into text to draw more creativity from the viewer.
In this showcase, there are 50 examples of how to best use typography within video. Although the list is fairly comprehensive, we advise you to help us in making it more complete. Add your thoughts or comments below, or recommend them to us through our Twitter page.
Excellent Examples of Kinetic Typography
1. Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles
Created by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. Everything in the film is real, with no CG effects. Shot with a RED One, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, a Canon EOS 40D, and Nikon D80 camera.
2. Eric Hutchinson – OK It’s Alright With Me
Nearly the entire song integrates some form of typography into it, making it a prime example of how typography can be used in video.
3. Portal – Still Alive Typography
The ending to the song “Portal” using typography. It integrates a more traditional form of typography along with basic images.
4. iQ Font – When Driving Becomes Writing
A look at how two typographers created a new font using a pro race pilot. Custom software was used to aid in the creation of the video/font.
5. The Cigarette is Dead
A motion graphics piece worked on for a national anti-smoking ad campaign.
6. Jake and Amir Kinetic Typography
From an Episode of “Jake and Admir,” this is an excellent example of typography.
7. Full Metal Jacket Typography
Another great piece of typography taken from a movie.
8. Mad as Hell!
450 words synced and animated from the 1976 movie “The Network.” It took over eighteen hours to create.
9. Typography is Intimidating
The first piece of kinetic typography by jimb0, but nonetheless a great piece.
10. Ancenders and Descenders
A typographic reinterpretation of Merce Cunningham’s dancing hands as recorded by OpenEnded Group for the Loops project. “What, from the outside, appear to be subtle manipulations of the hands become a beautiful tangle of diving flocks and waterfalls of letters.”
11. Opening Titles for AMD Conference 2009
Most people wouldn’t place typography into a conference introduction, but in this video, there is a great example of how it can, in fact, work to your advantage.
12. What Does Jack Webb Know
Another “first” kinetic typography film that is well-designed and suites the audio being spoken.
13. Frutiger Particles
A simple, but still artistic look at how typography can be used.
14. Motion and Audio Experiments – A Mini-reel
A showcase of various animations and typography that have all been combined with appropriate audio clips.
15. A-Z Typography Experiment
Using various frequencies of sound, different effects were given to the letters used in this short film.
16. Typography Landscape
Created for the anniversary of IdN, the entire video showcases some form or another of typography.
17. Rufio
A typographic film featuring a scene from the film “Hook.”
18. Crazy Enough – Title Sequence
Although it is simply the title sequence, it is still amazing work and use of typography.
19. D-Tronics Kinetic Typography
A spec project for a client, functions as an advertisement.
20. Let the Drummer Kick It
Built using After Effects, based on a music sequence.
21. Rockwell
An attractive, but short film made with After Effects.
22. Supernova
Like all true typographic videos, this one features speaker and text synchronization.
23. F is for FAIL
An alphabetic odyssey through the creative process, told using the letters of the alphabet.
24. Thinking About Eternal
A peaceful, symbolic composition, using After Effects.
25. How to Manifest Your Dreams and Goals
This quote from the video explains the purpose of the video: “We’re all here to grow. Taking direct action after confirming to the universe your desires is a key point to acheiving results. You ought to prove to youself and the world you REALLY want your goals, otherwise your chances of being successful are slim to none.”
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