# Ransom Note Collage: motion graphics style

> Every letter is a different cut-out from a magazine or newspaper, slapped onto a notebook page with tape and twitching at a low frame rate. A punk, zine-style collage look for music, fashion and loud social posts.

- Category: [Paper & Craft](https://aimotions.art/category/paper-craft/)
- Also known as: ransom note text, cut out magazine letters, mismatched letters, collage lettering, zine typography, cut and paste type, punk collage
- Demo built with: CSS · Energy: Lively · Background: Light bg
- Live demo: https://aimotions.art/styles/ransom-note-collage/
- Spanish version: https://aimotions.art/es/estilos/ransom-note-collage/

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

```text
Spell [TEXT] in the cut-and-paste collage style of a zine. Each letter is a separate chip cut with scissors from a different printed source: a fat serif on glossy white, a slab on red, blackletter on striped newsprint, a bubbly script in magenta on yellow, a high-contrast didone in white on black, typewriter on manila, a condensed sans on halftone dots, and so on: mismatched sizes, slightly rotated, with irregular cut edges and soft shadows. A few chips are held with strips of translucent tape. Place them on a ruled notebook page with a red margin line. Slap the letters down one at a time with a quick overshoot, then let every chip twitch at 8 frames per second as if re-placed by hand. After a hold, let them peel off and drop out of frame, then loop.
```

## Visual DNA

- Each letter in a different typeface, size, paper and color
- Irregular scissor-cut chips with soft drop shadows
- Translucent tape strips holding some of the chips
- Letters slap down one by one with a quick overshoot
- Stepped 8 fps jitter, as if every chip was re-placed by hand

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: Ransom Note Collage, aimotions, https://aimotions.art/styles/ransom-note-collage/