# Color Bars & Test Card Ident: motion graphics style

> Broadcast color bars with a 1 kHz tone wipe to a circle-and-grid test card, and the word slides in as the station ident caption. Borrows the off-air look of analog television for intros, streams, stand-by screens and retro titles.

- Category: [Analog Video & Glitch](https://aimotions.art/category/analog-video-glitch/)
- Also known as: tv test pattern, color bars, broadcast test card, station ident, technical difficulties screen, broadcast color bars, tv calibration pattern
- Demo built with: Canvas · Energy: Calm · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/color-bars-test-card/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/color-bars-test-card/

## Prompt (replace [TEXT] with your text)

```text
Create a broadcast test-card ident for [TEXT]. Open on full-frame television color bars: seven vertical bars (gray, yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, blue), a thin strip of reverse bars and near-black calibration blocks below, with a small level meter bouncing to a steady 1 kHz tone. A bright scan line wipes down to a mid-gray test card with a white grid, black-and-white castellated border, corner targets and a large central circle holding mini color bars, a gray step wedge, fine black-and-white gratings and a green oscilloscope trace of the sine tone. A black caption band unfolds across the middle and [TEXT] slides in from the right in a heavy wide all-caps sans, settling with a small overshoot. Add faint scanlines, signal noise and slight line jitter. Hold, slide out, wipe back to bars; loop every 8 seconds.
```

## Visual DNA

- Seven saturated bars over reverse bars and near-black calibration blocks
- Gray test card with white grid, castellated border and corner targets
- Central circle with bars, step wedge and fine frequency gratings
- Live 1 kHz sine trace and level meter
- Heavy wide caption band sliding in with a springy settle

The prompts are free to copy, adapt and use in personal and commercial projects, with no credit required. Republishing the collection or a substantial part of it (for example as another library or a dataset) requires written permission.

How to cite: Color Bars & Test Card Ident, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/color-bars-test-card/