Bold lane · 41 styles
Bold captions built to stop the scroll.
Forty-one heavy styles — caps, comic, stickers, paint, chrome and boards — with the word-by-word pop that short-form retention is built on.
LumaCaption’s Bold lane has 41 heavyweight caption styles — caps, comic, stickers, spray paint, chrome and split-flap boards — with nineteen revealing word by word for maximum motion and twenty-one revealing a full cue at a time.
The bold-caption look is the most copied thing in short-form video for a straightforward reason: heavy type at high contrast, one word arriving at a time, with a single word popping in colour, holds attention through the first three seconds better than anything else you can add without reshooting.
What separates forty-one styles from one style is what happens after those three seconds. Smash, Boom and Shockwave hit hard and get out of the way. Comic, Sticker and Bubblegum carry humour. Chrome, Bullion and Steelcast carry money. Stencil, Munitions and Blast carry threat. Same energy, entirely different claims.
Nineteen pop word by word
Nineteen of the forty-one reveal one word at a time on real speech timing; twenty-one bring in a full cue, which reads calmer across longer clips.
One keyword carries each line
The strongest word in every cue is picked automatically and set in the accent colour. Star a different word when the automatic pick misses.
Sticker, paint and chrome
Sticker, Sticker Pop, Splash Pop, Ink Splat, Brushline, Chrome, Liquid Chrome, Bullion and Steelcast are surface treatments, not just heavy fonts.
Legible over anything
Every style measures the frame behind it and washes exactly enough to hold a 3:1 contrast ratio, so bold type stays readable over bright or busy footage.
Forty-one styles, sorted by what they claim
Bold styles are not interchangeable. Each one makes an implicit claim about the speaker, and picking against your content is the fastest way to make a good clip feel wrong.
- Impact
- Smash, Boom, Shockwave, Scatter, Heatwave, Takeover, Stormfront. Maximum weight, minimum decoration. The default for business and fitness talking heads.
- Playful
- Comic, Sticker, Sticker Pop, Bubblegum, Bubble Talk, Splash Pop, Carnival, Fiesta, Block Party. Humour, family content, food, reaction clips.
- Premium
- Chrome, Liquid Chrome, Bullion, Steelcast, Slipstream. Metal and gloss — money, cars, watches, luxury.
- Street and edge
- Stencil, Street, Graffiti-adjacent Ink Splat, Munitions, Blast, Horror, Retro. Attitude first, polish second.
Word-by-word or whole-line?
Word-by-word reveals maximise motion, and motion is what buys you the first three seconds. The cost is reading effort: a viewer can only read as fast as the words arrive, so a dense, fast-talking clip captioned word by word can actually be harder to follow than the same clip captioned a line at a time.
The rule that holds up in practice is length. Under about thirty seconds, word-by-word. Over about two minutes, whole-cue. In between, use word-by-word for the hook and switch after it — any single line can wear its own look, so the change costs one click rather than a re-edit.
How it works
Drop the clip in
Words and their timings come back in seconds. Your video is never uploaded.
Pick a bold style
Forty-one to choose from, each previewing on your own footage rather than a demo reel.
Set the accent and export
Change the highlight colour to your brand, adjust which word pops, and export burned-in.
Common questions
Which bold style is closest to the Hormozi look?
Hormozi itself is in the catalogue, alongside Impact, Smash, Boom and Takeover, which occupy the same territory: heavy caps, word-by-word reveal, one keyword popping per line. There is a dedicated page for that specific look if you want the detail.
How does the highlighted word get chosen?
One word per cue is scored as the emphasis word and set in the accent colour — the choice weighs word length, position in the line and how common the word is, so filler and function words lose. When it picks wrong, star the word you wanted and it takes over.
Are bold captions readable over bright footage?
Yes. Every style in the catalogue measures the frame behind the caption and applies exactly enough wash to hold a 3:1 contrast ratio — the threshold for large text — so heavy type stays legible over a white wall or a sunlit street without a permanent black box.
Do word-by-word captions work for long videos?
They get tiring past a couple of minutes. Twenty-one of the forty-one bold styles reveal a full cue at a time for exactly this reason. A common build is word-by-word for the first line and whole-cue after it, which the per-line style override makes a one-click change.
