Brace Expand
Brace Expand is a typography & title cards Remotion shot (with a public demo.tsx). Watch the video preview, read the recipe notes, and copy the agent brief to implement it from tuned TSX.
- Category
- Typography & Title Cards
- Duration
- ~3.8s (114f@30fps: 7f appear → spring open → letter-spacing relax after settling → hold)
- Energy
- Medium (the single overshoot is the only peak, the rest is still)
- Styles
- 1
Recipe notes
A pair of curly braces first appears small in the center, then shoots outward to ±148px while scaling up to title size; the text's clip width is strictly bound to the brace spacing, revealing it like a curtain being drawn; after settling, letter-spacing relaxes slightly
When to use it
Developer/technical product title cards; chapter openers; the minimal one-beat reveal of "a single symbol completes the reveal"
Intent
Among title-reveal techniques, this card is the most economical: no mask bars, no per-character moves, no translation — just a pair of braces walking outward while the text gets "bracketed out." It carries an inherent code vocabulary (`{}` are curly braces), so in a technical-product context it reads as "this is the content itself." The linchpin is that the clip width **must be strictly bound to the brace position**: once the text fades in or wipes in on its own, the braces degrade into decoration and the curtain feel is lost.