Terminal chalk style

Make explainer videos in a terminal chalk style: monospace type beside chalk drawing, scene by scene with narration. Code and concepts in one frame.

Updated 23 July 2026

Make a video in this style
Short answer: The terminal chalk style mixes monospace type with chalk drawing, so code and concepts sit in the same frame. It suits developer content, technical documentation and anything where a command or a config line has to be readable next to the diagram explaining it.
The script this video was made from
[title] Style card: Terminal chalk

[scene 1]
[voice] In Terminal chalk the command and the diagram sit in the same frame, both of them readable.
[caption] The command and the diagram in the same frame
[drawing] In the upper two thirds of the frame, four rectangles in a row from left to right with wide gaps between them, joined by three straight arrows pointing right. Each rectangle carries one word inside it: BROWSER in the first, CACHE in the second, API in the third, DATABASE in the fourth. A fifth arrow curves back from the fourth rectangle to the second, passing below the row, with the word MISS lettered above its middle. Under the whole row, a single horizontal rule runs across the frame. Below that rule, one line of type reading GET /api/orders 200 in 12ms, aligned to the left edge of the first rectangle, with a small square cursor block sitting at the end of the line. There is no other text in the frame. The line of type below the rule is the focal point.
[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 Terminal chalk 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 Terminal chalk look, and records the narration. You get a finished MP4 to download, watermark-free once you buy minutes.

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