Handwritten caption styles Marker, chalk and ink, timed to the voice.

Handwritten styles make captions feel personal, like notes in the margin. Marker Note writes in felt pen and swipes a highlighter across the spoken word. Circled draws a hand-drawn circle around the keyword, Chalk sets slightly askew letters on a board, and Notebook uses blue ink on notebook paper. Scrawl Punch keeps clean text and scrawls only the keyword in red.

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8 styles · This preview was recorded with the same renderer that burns captions into your clip, so what you see is what you get.

Marker Note Felt pen with a highlighter swiping the spoken word

Circled The keyword gets a hand-drawn circle

Chalk Chalk on a board, letters slightly askew

Doodle A colourful doodle: each line its own colour, loose words

Signature Elegant script with a stroke growing underneath

Graffiti Colourful graffiti tag with a spray shadow

Scrawl Punch Clean text with the keyword scrawled by hand in red

Notebook Blue ink on notebook paper

Specs of every style

Font, size, words per line, outline and entrance animation of every style in this category, read from the same style that burns the captions into your clip.

Style	Font	Size	Words per line	Outline	All caps	Entrance
Marker Note	Permanent Marker	86 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Circled	Caveat Bold (700)	104 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Chalk	Caveat Bold (700)	104 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Doodle	Permanent Marker	88 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Signature	Dancing Script Bold (700)	100 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Graffiti	Sedgwick Ave Display	104 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	No	None
Scrawl Punch	Inter Black (900)	80 px	3, up to 2 lines	None	Yes	None
Notebook	Caveat Bold (700)	96 px	4, up to 2 lines	None	No	None

Step by step

How to apply a style to your clip

How to choose and save a caption style In the Download clip window, open Captions in the right menu. On the Styles tab, filter by category or search and click a style: the caption shows up in the preview. After adjusting the font and effects, Save caption style keeps everything under a name, and Use as default applies that style automatically to your next clips. See the steps → How to customize the clip captions With a style chosen in Captions, use the Font tab to change the font, size, weight, colors, outline, shadow and line breaks, and the Effects tab for position, caption backdrop, keywords and word styles. Drag the caption in the preview to move it. See the steps → How to use your brand's font in captions Inside a video, open Library in the menu, go to Fonts and click Add font to upload a TTF or OTF file. The font stays saved in your account and shows up in every caption font picker, in the Your Fonts group. Only use fonts you're licensed to use. See the steps →

Terms worth knowing

Animated captions Captions that light up, change color or appear word by word at the exact moment each word is spoken. Burned-in captions Captions rendered into the video image itself: they show in every player and the viewer cannot turn them off. Safe zone The part of a vertical video the app interface does not cover, where captions and text stay visible. Characters per second (CPS) A caption's reading speed: how many characters the viewer has to read for every second it stays on screen.

Frequently asked questions

Are handwritten captions readable on a phone?

They are set large, with three or four words per line, so they read well. For long sentences, Scrawl Punch is the safer choice: clean type, with only the keyword in handwriting.

Which fonts do the handwritten styles use?

Permanent Marker, Caveat, Dancing Script and Sedgwick Ave Display, all included in the 54 fonts, so there is nothing to install.

Pick a style. We handle the timing. Every word synced to the speech.

Upload a video or paste a YouTube link. We transcribe every word with its timing, you choose the look, and the clip comes out captioned.

Try it on my video

See the result on your own recording before adding a card.