# Typography animations

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 19, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251 "2011-03-19T13:26:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/1 "2011-03-19T13:26:29Z")

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Someone had a thread about this within the last few months, but “typography” isn’t finding it for me and I’m not sure what term they used.

Anyway, here is a really good collection of these:

[noparse]URL=“[http://inspirationfeed.com/2011/01/30-beautiful-motion-typography-and-kinetic-type-animations/](http://inspirationfeed.com/2011/01/30-beautiful-motion-typography-and-kinetic-type-animations/)”[/noparse]

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/2 "2011-03-19T13:41:48Z")

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> **[Kinetic Typography--Animated Word Art](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=594817)**
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> I’ve recently become aware of this art form. And, as a font fanatic, I love it. Two of the best examples I’ve seen: Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac applied to a videowith excellent letter and logo play. Steven Fry on Language. Anyone have more?

I searched for kinetic, figuring if typography wasn’t in there, kinetic would be, but both words are right next to each other (and only appear in the title), so who knows.

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**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/3 "2011-03-19T14:13:19Z")

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WARNING:

I clicked the link in the OP, and got numerous virus pop ups.

reported.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/4 "2011-03-19T14:15:46Z")

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> [@Labtrash](#):
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> WARNING:
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> I clicked the link in the OP, and got numerous virus pop ups.
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> reported.

Sorry about that! Guess my ad blocker is working, I didn’t see a thing.

Broke the link in the OP.

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**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/5 "2011-03-19T14:16:24Z")

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> [@twickster](#):
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> Sorry about that! Guess my ad blocker is working, I didn’t see a thing.
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> Broke the link in the OP.

No problems for me either (Firefox/adblock).

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/6 "2011-03-19T14:17:43Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> [Kinetic Typography--Animated Word Art - Cafe Society - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=594817)  
> I searched for kinetic, figuring if typography wasn’t in there, kinetic would be, but both words are right next to each other (and only appear in the title), so who knows.

The dash is abutting the “typography,” and I didn’t wildcard my search term.

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**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/typography-animations/575251/7 "2011-03-19T23:13:39Z")

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I did [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc).

I want to do more, but it’s hard to find the time.