Text Animations

Dashboard → Profile → Effects → Text effects. Your display name, your bio and your location each get their own effect, chosen separately: Name effect, Bio effect and Location effect. The same pickers open from the chips under those fields, just above it.

• Fade in
• Glitch: digital distortion
• Split: letters animate in one at a time
• Typewriter: types out character by character
• Decrypt: characters scramble, then resolve
• Sparkle: glints drift across the letters

And thirteen that stay on for as long as the page is open: Outline, Rainbow, Blur, Shake, Wave, Shuffle, Pulse, Bounce, Float, Wobble, Zoom, Flip and Jitter. Outline holds still; the other twelve keep moving.

The same list as your display name.

Glitch, Typewriter and Sparkle, and the same thirteen that stay on.

Each effect exposes the timing that matters to it, and only that, under Timing for the name effect (and the bio's and the location's):

• Speed, in seconds: lower is faster
• Split: Letter delay between letters, and each letter's Duration
• Typewriter: Typing speed, in milliseconds per character
• Decrypt: Scramble speed, how fast the scramble resolves
• Loop animation: replay it, or play it once on arrival
• The thirteen that keep moving have no loop; they take a speed instead, and Outline, which does not move, has nothing to tune

Your name and your bio, once, as words. Split and Typewriter, which build text letter by letter, give a screen reader the finished text rather than a stream of single characters, and the typewriter's cursor is hidden from it. Decrypt is read as it is drawn, so a screen reader can catch it mid-scramble.

An animation on your name and another on your bio means a visitor waits through two before they can read anything. Pick one.