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Terminal intro

Size
1920×1080
Frame rate
30 fps
Length
6s

A command typed, steps completing with timings down the right, and a file at the end.

Make your own terminal animation

Runs a command in a terminal on screen — typed, executed, finished — at a speed a person can actually read. Say a sentence like the one below and your agent writes you a different one — free, in your browser.

Say this to your agent

>Show our build running in a terminal and finishing.

Or ask for a different one

Not settings — each one builds something else.

  • >Type an install command, show it finishing, then cut to the thing it installed.

  • >A terminal with a test suite going green one line at a time.

  • >Show this git history scrolling past, then stop on the commit that matters.

What it worked out on its own

  • What says terminal is the context, not the metrics: a window, a title bar, a prompt glyph and real output. With those in place a geometric sans reads as a terminal.

  • Six seconds of a build succeeding is a story. Six seconds of a sentence being typed is a caption.

  • The caret holds solid while characters arrive and blinks only while idle. A caret that keeps blinking as you type is the tell that nobody watched a real terminal.

  • The window clips its own contents, so the height and the type size are chosen together — the payoff line has to fit inside the run, not below it.