Carbon style

Make explainer videos in the carbon style: bright strokes on near-black with high contrast, scene by scene with narration. Holds up on a phone screen.

Updated 23 July 2026

Make a video in this style
Short answer: The carbon style draws bright strokes on a near-black surface, so each line stands out with high contrast and nothing else competes for attention. It suits technical and product subjects, and it holds up well on a phone screen where softer looks tend to wash out.
The script this video was made from
[title] Style card: Carbon

[scene 1]
[voice] Carbon is for the one number that decides: put it alone in the frame and nothing argues with it.
[caption] The one number that decides
[drawing] One long curve rises from the lower left corner of the frame to the upper right, steep at first and flattening as it goes, drawn as a single unbroken line. Three small circles sit on the curve: the first low on the left where it starts, the second at the point where the curve stops climbing steeply, the third high on the right where it flattens. From the second circle a short vertical line drops straight down to a horizontal base line that runs across the lower edge of the frame. The upper right of the frame, above the flattened end of the curve, holds one very large numeral 12 with a small percent sign beside it, standing on its own with wide empty space around it. Below the base line, three short words are lettered under the points they belong to, each directly beneath its own circle: START under the first, TURN under the second, HOLD under the third. There is no other text in the frame. The large numeral in the upper right is the focal point, and everything else in the frame is small beside it.
[seconds] 10

Paste it into Studio with Use my words exactly, pick the style, and you get this video back.

Every scene of your video is drawn in the Carbon style, so the whole thing feels like one hand from start to finish.

Give explain.ink a topic, your own script, or a document. It writes the story, draws it in the Carbon look, and records the narration. You get a finished MP4 to download, watermark-free once you buy minutes.

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