# Change a clip's caption style Pick a caption style before a job or in the editor, change the font, colours, highlight and position of the captions, and save a look to use again. - Page: https://www.snipri.com/docs/change-caption-style - By [Cihan Düzgören](https://www.snipri.com/about) · November 2, 2026 · 3 min read - Section: Editor, in [the Snipri docs](https://www.snipri.com/docs) Captions are burned into a clip word by word, each word highlighted as it is spoken. You can choose their look before a job, and change it on any clip afterwards. ## The styles There are 31 styles: Karaoke, Panel, Typewriter, Bounce, Spotlight, Pop, Impact, Comic, Focus, Clean, Editorial, Bulletin, Kapow, Slate, Poster, Signal, Ticker, Orchid, Badge, Sprout, Sorbet, Flamingo, Daydream, Gilded, Bloom, Sunset, Pogo, Decode, Feather, Lucid and Ribbon. Each style is a whole look, down to how the words arrive on screen, so picking one changes the motion and not only the typeface. Hover over a style, or move the keyboard focus to it, to see it move. ## Before a job In the Studio, the **Captions** card shows a frame of your video wearing the selected style. New clips start in your brand's look if you saved one on the Brand page, and in Karaoke if you didn't. The switch at the top of the card turns captions off for the whole job. ## On a clip you already have Open the clip in the editor and choose **Captions**. **Show captions**, at the top, turns the captions of this clip on or off. Under it: - **Caption style**: the styles above, as cards. Pick one to start from. - **Position**: **Top**, **Middle** or **Bottom**. You can also drag the captions on the video, and pull a side handle to make them wider or narrower. - **Font color**: the colour of the words, including neon colours that glow. 13 fonts are built in: Montserrat, Roboto, Lato, Raleway, Nunito, Rubik, Bebas Neue, Oswald, Shrikhand, Jomhuria, Playfair Display, IBM Plex Mono and Komika Axis. A font file of your own, uploaded on the Brand page, is offered beside them. ## More caption settings **More caption settings** opens the rest of the look: - **Font settings**: the **Font**, its **Weight** and its **Size**. A font of your own is uploaded on the Brand page, and **Upload your own** opens it. - **Caption length**: how much a caption shows at a time. **One word** shows a word at a time, and **Short** and **Standard** show short or longer lines. - **Outline**: the colour around the letters, and its **Stroke size**. - **Text treatment**: **Uppercase**, and **Background box** with its **Box color**. - **Animation**: how each word or phrase arrives, from **None** to effects such as **Word bounce** or **Glitch**. - **Word highlight**: how the spoken word stands out, such as **Current only**, **Up to current**, **Background** or **Underline**, in its **Highlight color**. **Background** adds **Text on highlight**, the colour of the word on its box, and **Last line** adds **Last line size**, which draws the last line larger than the lines above it. Press **Save changes** and the clip renders again with the new captions, at no cost. [Edit a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-a-clip) covers the editor's other tools. ## Use a look again Under **Your styles**, press **Save this style**, type a name and press **Save**. The look is kept in this browser and offered beside the built-in styles, in the editor and on the Studio's **Captions** card, so you can put it on other clips one at a time. The bin beside a saved style deletes it. To make a look the one every new clip starts in, save it on the Brand page instead: the brand kit belongs to your account and dresses the clips of each new job. A change to the kit reaches the clips made after it, and never restyles the clips you already have. [Set up your brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/docs/set-up-your-brand-kit) covers it. The [brand kit](https://www.snipri.com/features/brand-kit) page shows what a kit holds, and [animated captions](https://www.snipri.com/features/animated-captions) shows the styles in motion. Previous guide: [Edit a clip's transcript](https://www.snipri.com/docs/edit-the-transcript) Next guide: [Add text to a clip](https://www.snipri.com/docs/add-text-to-a-clip) Still stuck? Write to [hello@snipri.com](mailto:hello@snipri.com) with the name of the video and what the screen said.