If your subtitle drop shadows are too far away from the text, or they’re too hard, it can make the subtitles less readable however. Add a subtle drop shadowĪdding a slight drop shadow on your subtitle text can be less chunky or ugly looking than an outline or stroke, but it can achieve the same result in increasing legibility. Often changing your subtitle color to yellow (another common sub color) is enough to do the trick. White is a fairly common color in video and in life so it’s not surprising that light colored backgrounds often make white subtitles hard to read. Depending on the background, this may not be enough to do the trick however. By making the subtitle font (in this case Avenir 28 point) bold, you can often easily make your subtitles more readable. This is one of the easiest changes you can make to try and make subtitle text more legible. Cons: Depending on how thick your font is, your stroke may look chunky or ugly. Pros: Makes the text more legible no matter what your background is or how bright it is. In this case we’ve added a 2 pixel black stroke around our text, making it more legible. Many video editing programs provide you with the ability to add a stroke or outline to text. Without further ado, here are 10 ways to make subtitles more easily readable.
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Many of these subtitling tricks can be done in just about any video program, so the software you’re using isn’t as important as the style you use with which to apply the subtitles. Similarly, if you have a particularly busy background with lots of small details, it can be difficult to read subtitles too. With light colored subtitles, light colored backgrounds can be especially difficult.
This is a common problem and it almost always occurs because the background (whatever the subtitles are being laid on top of) is too close to the subtitles itself, making the text difficult for our eyes to distinguish. The subtitles in the image above aren’t very easy to read at all.
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