Give your logo life
Six prompts take a logo from ten ideas on a page to a two-second end card with its own sound and music. Here are the six, what each one asks for, and why the plain beep won.
- Where
- In the terminal, with Claude Code
- Size
- A longer one
- Short link
- piy.show/s127
One end card, 130 versions
Every video on this channel ends the same way. The logo types itself, the cursor deletes the I, a beep and a lower boop, and the link. Two seconds. It took two days in October 2026 and about 130 versions to get those two seconds right.
Most of those versions were sound. The picture was settled early. What took the time was how the keys sound, what the delete sounds like, and how the music ends so the logo lands on the last hit.
This Short is the six prompts that take you from nothing to that end card. Each one asks for one thing, and each one asks for versions you can compare.
Why does an end card need its own sound? Prompt it yourself
Show me the end card of five channels I like, two seconds each, and tell me what each one does with sound.
Ten ideas on one page
The first prompt asks for the logo as code, built from a font file, with ten versions on one page. Not one logo. Ten, side by side, so you can point.
Code matters from the first prompt. A picture file is one take. Code can be changed later, animated, resized and given sound, and every frame comes out the same. If you start with a picture, you start again at every step below.
Give it one rule to hold on to. Mine was: the letters P, I, Y, and the cursor is the I. Everything else was open.
Why ask for the logo as code? Prompt it yourself
Design a logo for my channel. Super simple: the letters of the name, and the cursor is one of them. Build it as code from a font file, so I can change it later. Show me 10 versions on one page.
Keep the letters, change one thing
The second prompt picks one and asks for ten more of it. Keep the letters the same, so the ten can be compared. Change the things around them: the font, the cursor's weight, its colour, a red tile under it.
This is the step most people skip. They get ten, like one, and stop. Ten more of the one you like is where it becomes yours.
Say what to keep before you say what to change. Without the keep, the agent changes everything, and you are back to comparing apples with pears.
How do I ask for changes without losing the good part? Prompt it yourself
I like number 4. Keep the cursor in the middle and keep it as code. Give me 10 more: other fonts, a thicker cursor, a red cursor, the logo on a red tile. Keep the letters the same, so I can compare.
Animate it as keystrokes
The third prompt turns the still into motion. Type P, I, Y with keystrokes, then the cursor goes back, deletes the I and stays as the logo. No easing, no blink. Keep it as code, so every frame can be made again.
Describe the motion as what happens, in order. The agent cannot build "lively". It can build "the delete grows the cursor into the logo over a quarter of a second".
Keep tweaking with the same rule: one thing per prompt, and say what stays.
How do I do this step myself? Prompt it yourself
Animate number 4 as code: type the letters with keystrokes, then the cursor goes back, deletes one and stays as the logo. No easing, no blink. Keep it as an animation in code, so every frame is reproducible.
I can help you build yours
I build things like this with an AI agent, on my own computer. In a private session I help you do the same with your idea. Or bring it to the show, free.
Add sound, three versions
The fourth prompt adds sound: a key click for each letter, a deeper one for the delete, then a beep and a lower boop when the cursor blinks twice. Three versions I can hear.
Mine came back as piano notes, a soft thump, and plain keys with the beep and boop. The plain one won. The delete had to sound different, because it is not typing. A whoosh at the end was too much. Just the beep beep, because it sounds like waiting to continue.
You cannot judge sound from a description. Ask for versions you can play, side by side, and listen on the phone speaker, because that is where people will hear it.
Which sound did the end card keep, and why? Prompt it yourself
Add sound: a key click for each letter, a deeper one for the delete, then a beep and a lower boop at the end. Give me 3 versions I can hear, side by side.
Music from a real composer, cut by the agent
The fifth prompt is the one people get wrong. I did not ask the agent to compose. The music is from a real composer, licensed from a music library. Credit to the humans.
What the agent does is the cutting. Find a track that really ends: a played final chord that rings, not a fade. Cut its last 30 seconds and a 9-second ending, so the logo lands on the last hit. Give me five to hear.
Most tracks fade, and a fade is not an ending. The agent listens to the end of each track and keeps the ones that stop. That is work a human does by ear for an hour. The agent does it for a whole library.
How do I make the logo land on the music? Prompt it yourself
Add background music from my licensed library. Find a track that really ends: a played final chord that rings, no fade, so the logo lands on the last hit. Cut its last 30 seconds and a 9-second ending. Give me 5 to hear.
Put it all together
The sixth prompt assembles it. A two-second vertical end card: black, the logo on its red tile, the name under it, the link below, with the sound. Rendered as one video file I can drop into any edit.
One file, used everywhere, never rebuilt. Every Short on this channel ends with the same two seconds, and nobody has to remember how they were made.
What would this look like for my work? Prompt it yourself
Put it all together: a 2-second vertical end card for Shorts. Black, the logo on its red tile, the name under it, the link below, with the sound. Render it as a video file I can drop into any edit.
Start with yours
Six prompts, in this order: ten ideas, ten more of one, animate it, add sound, add music that ends, put it together. Ask for versions at every step and pick by eye and by ear. The first pass is an evening. The end card lasts for years.
What do I do next? Prompt it yourself
Here is my logo as code. Add sound in three versions, then a two-second end card with the sound, as one video file.
Do it in the terminal
I do this with Claude Code, the AI agent in the terminal. It works in a folder on your own computer, so it reads your files every time and can look things up for you.
A web chat works too, but there you paste everything in again in every new chat.
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Get Claude Code
It comes with Claude Pro, US$20 a month, paid to Anthropic. Claude's plans
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Make a folder for it, and open it
mkdir -p ~/projects/my-logo && cd ~/projects/my-logo
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Start the agent
claude
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Ask it
Put it all together: a 2-second vertical end card for Shorts. Black, the logo on its red tile, the name under it, the link below, with the sound. Render it as a video file I can drop into any edit.
Never opened a terminal? In a private session I put Claude Code on your computer with you, and you start your first idea.
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