Do punch and tiktok-green captions accept design overrides? No

No. The Sume caption docs state that punch and tiktok-green do not support design. These two styles render on a path that reads none of the design tokens, so a request that expects a recolor or a new placement will not get one. If you need to tune colors, typography, placement, phrasing or motion, pick a style that does support design, such as slam or one of the Hangul identities.

What each style choice gives you

The docs list slam, punch, tiktok-green and korean-ad as selectable styles, plus six Hangul identities. They split along one line: Latin display faces versus Hangul faces, and tunable versus fixed.

Reading the table

The rows for slam, punch and tiktok-green come from the docs' rule that these styles use Latin display faces with no Hangul glyphs. A Korean caption on them returns caption_hangul_text_latin_style. The design row for punch and tiktok-green comes from the docs' note that they do not support overrides; the slam row follows the docs' statement that design merges over a style's tokens and that only these two are excepted.

Do not look for a hidden workaround. The API does not change the style of a job to something you did not select, and it does not ignore bad tokens silently on the styles that support them.

A practical route

If a campaign needs the green look of tiktok-green and a brand color, you cannot recolor it through design. You can keep the style as is, or choose slam and set design.colors.active yourself. Burn both on the same clip using source_caption_id so the transcript is shared, and judge the result on the phone, not on a monitor.

• A restyle costs a normal $0.20 job under the current estimate for clips up to 60 seconds.
• script_text still works with punch, as in the docs' own example.
• Check the live price in GET /v1/catalog.

Cost of the experiment

Because overrides are not available on these two styles, the only way to compare looks is to run separate renders. With the restyle path that is $0.20 per look under the estimate for clips up to 60 seconds. Comparing punch, tiktok-green and a tuned slam on one video is 3 x $0.20 = $0.60, and only the first needs a transcription.