# Wobble type (sref-R5T4YB)

Slice style ref: sref-R5T4YB
Page: https://tryslicemedia.com/styles/sref-R5T4YB
Slug: wobble-type

> THIS IS A MOODBOARD, NOT A TEMPLATE. The style below is inspiration for the look and feel. Keep its materials, colours, textures and the way it moves, but invent your own scenes, characters and objects for this clip. You are not limited to anything shown in the preview, and nothing in it has to appear. Use illustration and animation to help tell the clip's story.

## At a glance
- Feel: Bold letters that wobble, tilt and get poked, as if hand-cut and alive.
- Group: Kinetic type
- Energy: lively; mood: funny, warm, cheeky
- Pictures: all drawn, no photos needed
- Palette: #00C2FF, #111111, #FFE14D, #FF5A36, #FFF7EA
- Preview shape: 1:1 (the look works in any shape: 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9)

## The look
Look and motion: Wobble type. Flat bright grounds, two colours per screen, and ground and ink swap when a new line starts: #00C2FF sky cyan with #111111 black, black with #FFE14D yellow, yellow with black; #FF5A36 tomato and #FFF7EA cream for small drawn helpers. Type: heavy rounded or condensed grotesque capitals, very bold, each letter slightly irregular in size and angle as if hand cut. Light flat, no texture or a slight paper. Camera locked. Motion: the letters never sit still; every letter re-rolls a small rotation and offset every second frame, like a boiling drawing, and new words pop on in a single frame with a small overshoot frame. Simple flat drawn hands or tiny shapes with a black outline can poke a letter so it bends over and springs back, drawn on twos. Words land on the spoken beat, then hold and boil. The one rule: the letters never sit still; they boil like drawings. Don'ts: no perfect alignment, no thin weights, no smooth glides, no camera shake.

## What it suits
- Content: comedy, advice, motivation
- Tone: playful, warm
- Pace: fast
- Best for: Comedy, kids and family content, playful hooks and encouragement.
- Avoid for: Serious news, grief or formal business talk.
- Keywords: funny, kids, family, joke, encourage, silly, play, school, parenting, laugh
- Suits (from the library): Comedy, Kids and family, Playful hooks, Encouragement

## How to use it
Run most of the clip as full-frame wobbling words that react to the jokes, cutting back to the speaker once or twice for the laugh.

## Where the speaker sits
Suits Full scene, Split; avoid Small, Drawn over. (save_scene speaker: {"mode":"hidden"}, {"mode":"split","where":"below"})

## Story first
STORY FIRST. Read the whole clip before you design anything.
1. Write the clip's arc in one line: setup, tension, turn, pay-off. Name the one line that is the reveal.
2. Tag every sentence with its job: setup, context, tension, turn, reveal, example, number, contrast, list, quote, feeling, metaphor, callback, pay-off, aside.
3. The visuals carry the whole clip. If the clip shows the speaker's face, open on them (the first scene keeps them on screen) unless the person says otherwise. After that, never cut back to the speaker full-frame unless the person asks for it; if they do, only on the ending, never in the middle of an explanation. The speaker can still sit inside a scene (a corner, a split or drawn in) when the person wants to be seen.
4. Build one flowing visual story, not a new picture per sentence. Each scene covers a whole thought (one to three sentences), holds 3 to 8 seconds and turns into the next.
5. Start each scene on the first word of its sentence, or up to half a second before. Never cut mid-sentence.
6. Inside a scene, bring small details in on the words they show (an item, a tag, a tick). Earlier details stay.
7. Choose one or two recurring objects or characters in the first scene and bring them back changed. Callbacks beat new pictures.
8. Build up the same picture where you can (add to it, move the camera across it) instead of replacing it.
9. Energy: about 80 percent still, drifting or gentle. Allow one big move in the whole clip, on the reveal, for 1 to 2 seconds, then settle and hold.
10. Numbers sit on a scale (gauge, bar, table, timeline) and hold long enough to read. Contrasts are a still split or the same layout twice.
11. Feelings get a quiet image, or one of the cuts back to the speaker; never effects.
12. On-screen text names, labels or quotes; it never repeats the caption. Five words or fewer per label.
13. End every scene by settling or thinning out, or by turning into the next scene. No exit effects.
14. The style sets the look. These rules set when, how long and how calmly. If the style's own motion rules ask for more energy than this, use less.

TECH: one HTML file, one GSAP 3 timeline created paused as window.__timelines.main, duration = the scene's length, transforms and opacity only.

## Sample frames
- Frame 1: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-R5T4YB/f1-218eb3a3.webp
- Frame 2: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-R5T4YB/f2-890e92e8.webp
- Frame 3: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-R5T4YB/f3-da2fc5a9.webp
- Frame 4: https://ripttgmjfyhtufiygtbe.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/style-frames/sref-R5T4YB/f4-7d4a19b4.webp

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