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Eleven templates for the videos, the Mike & Matty way: Lausanne everywhere, one Larken italic moment, honey for the accent. The footage stays the hero — graphics support the moment, they aren't the moment. Pick the accent with the swatches above; turn on Viewfinder for the optional camera-frame styling, and Rules to see the grid, font specs, and annotations overlaid for learning. These are the dark-room overlays — the cream ICC room is for full-screen titles and motion graphics, not on-footage text.
The viewfinder frame
A single hairline inset ~46px from the edge with small corner ticks. It frames the shot as a plate — and does most of the work by itself.
Micro, not macro
Tiny Lausanne labels at 0.34em tracking. The confidence is in how little type there is, and how precisely it sits.
Metadata as texture
Timecodes, indices, a quiet REC dot in the accent. Functional marks that imply a system — never decoration.
One color, one moment
Type is a single cream (or ink, light room). Color appears once — a Larken italic word in honey, emerald, or carnelian.
Chapter title
Full viewfinder frame, corner ticks, a kicker, and the title set bottom-left in negative space. Use on wide / two-shot footage with breathing room.
Lower-third
A tighter lower-third: a single emerald rule, name in Lausanne 600, role muted to ~66%. Bottom-left, in the dead space beside the subject.
Editorial moment
A subtitle / pull-line set in Larken italic — the one warm gesture. A single word lifts to the accent. This is where the serif earns its keep.
Definition
Same logic, more text. Tighter inset frame, term in Lausanne, plain-English body in dimmed cream with one italic lift. Left third only — subject lives in right two-thirds.
Stat / number
One huge figure in Lausanne, one line of context. The unit lifts to the accent italic. Nothing competes with the number.
Pull-quote
A line worth holding on. Lausanne with one Larken-italic accent, an uppercase attribution and a short hairline. Where it sits depends on the shot — cycle the cases to see it adapt.
Spread title
A wide cinematic title that wraps around the subject instead of covering them. Two-word fragments at the far left and right edges, load-bearing word in Larken italic. Needs a wide shot — subject small and centred so the edges stay clear of his body.
List · title card
A heading with an emerald gradient marker behind it, then a short list. The next-up item dims to ~38% so the viewer knows where they are. Lives in the left third.
- Dolor sit amet
- Consectetur elit
- Adipiscing sed
Subtitle · caption
The spoken line on an emerald highlight, with the lead-out dimmed. One block at a time, never two — the highlight tracks what's being said right now.
Chapter marker
The quiet act-break. A Larken-italic honey number, an emerald hairline, a wide-tracked Lausanne label — dead-centre, soft grade only. For the beat between scenes.
Crossword opener
Two words sharing a first letter — one across, one stacked — in Lausanne 800 on an even grid. Honey carries the corner credits, a single Larken-italic byline signs it. Letters land in the room's dark gutters, clear of the subjects. The series opener.