The default subtitle font on Netflix, Consolas was designed by Luc(as) de Groot for Microsoft. It’s monospaced and functional, with no frills, because it’s aimed at programmers.

Situations where subtitles must not be presented if the specified font is not available These streams use a (hand drawn!) test font we created in-house called “BBCRD_Massif”.

Custom fonts for streaming subtitles. Ensuring the readability of our subtitles is critically important and the font used has a significant impact on accessibility and legibility.

Ensuring the readability of our subtitles is critically important and the font used has a significant impact on accessibility and legibility. Subtitles provide an on-screen text representation of ...