| So I started watching some older anime recently and I have noticed that some of them do have "Yellow" Sub color. Personally i enjoyed reading them much more than the current white subtitles, i think they are more comfortable. Also, there are some sub-teams who use Mixed colors, like for example the main dialogue is with "white" and the names with "red" and the narrative with "blue". Do you like it more that way? I had this question in my mind for some time, what do you guys think? Does different font color affects you in a way or another? If yes which color do you prefer? why? I'll add a poll for lazy people. |
| I'd prefer white, it's just easier on my eyes. I've seen some with yellow subs and doesn't feel too comfortable. |
| This poll is racist. kappa I don't care at all, but white subs generally look cleaner. Character color-coded are also cool but I rarely see such. |
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| I don't worry about it too much, but I typically prefer a yellow font myself. |
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| each character talking with a different color that's my fetish |
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| Yellow subtitles makes me feel old. I prefer white ones, as they tend to be less... distracting. I also remember those old subtitles used in the 2000's when the subtitles were colored differently depending of whom character was talking. Those were fun. |
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| I prefer yellow ones, or at least white ones with a dark border. My television's take on subtitles isn't too convenient, seeing as the letters are completely white and this means that they often fall away against a white background. I also much prefer hard-subs over soft-subs, as my television also encounters an issue here; when there is written Japanese text in the background (i.e. a newspaper headline, advertisement in front of a store, etc), and someone speaks over this timestamp, I will only see the subtitle that translates the written text, and the subtitles for the spoken text won't even appear on the screen anymore until the subtitle for the static text disappears. |
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| i just prefer white cuz it looks cleaner, tidier and better |
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| white power all the way in my opinion |
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| Only a little.....a very insignificant portion of impact Still I prefer no yellow subs |
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| Yellow subs trigger me. It's not 2006. |
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| White subs are always best, but piss-colored subs are fine in older shows. In fact, they're sometimes more preferable since they match the older visuals. |
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| As long as it doesn't confuse with the background it's fine (years ago happened from time to time), so whatever colour as long there's an outline. I prefer different colours for every character only when there are multiple characters speaking at the same time consistently throughout the show. Aquamirror said: Black subtitles matter.This poll is racist. kappa |
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| colored sub. can disturbed the view. so I prefer white. |
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Illyricus said: Yellow subtitles makes me feel old. I prefer white ones, as they tend to be less... distracting. I also remember those old subtitles used in the 2000's when the subtitles were colored differently depending of whom character was talking. Those were fun. About the distracting part, in my major we studied color vision and i can confirm what you are saying that White font tends to make you focus more, but Yellow is more calm and relaxing and therefore more comfortable (according to that lecture), though what we discussed was based only on pure colored background, maybe its different in anime were background colors always change. CheekyKunt said: White subs are always best, but piss-colored subs are fine in older shows. In fact, they're sometimes more preferable since they match the older visuals. I guess sub-teams should try Yellow sub at least once for a new anime. Agree that in old anime it matches the visuals. LOL -------------- Wow such decisive result! |
| A simple white font with a 1 pixel black outline. Italic for voice-overs. |
| It doesn't really matter to me, although some subtitles do seem slightly easier to read than others. I don't care if they're yellow or white. |
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| No preference. I like the mixed though at times, I guess. Differentiating characters that might be offscreen talking and such. The font if anything though would have a impact on my watching experience above all else. I prefer just a simple standard font. I've seen some OPs/EDs though once or twice I believe with like a handwritten/cursive font and I found it a bit hard to read. |
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| I prefer white subs with medium-sized neutral fonts and condensed dialogue, like The Criterion Collection. Without any of those tasteless graphics and captions all the fansubbers love to write all over the picture, nor lines at the top for unimportant background dialogue. The worst case of this I remember is Little Witch Academia by the GG group, where the main dialogue at one point went to the top and the background dialogue to the bottom. |
EzekielNov 18, 2016 9:26 AM
| I don't know about the other colors, but Fk the yellow subs..! Those are literally disturbing!! T_T I think I'd be fine with blue/sky colored subs though.. But I prefer white over everything else. |
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| For anime that have characters with colorful hair colors, subs that match the speaking characters hair color Else just white |
| If I had a preference it would be to have multiple colors. It's easier to follow a conversation between multiple people if they give each person a color. Or there are other times when the subtitles stick to a single color but end up being a similar color to what they're overlayed upon and it makes them hard to see. |
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| don't care as long as they are easy to read and somehow doesn't bother me when watching the show |
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| According to various votes on MAL and AniDB, yellow subs are only bad when official subs use them. Same with white -- everybody's fine with it when fansubs use it, but any stream rip that features Funimation's white subs with black outlines suddenly has ugly/awful styling. |
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| Yellow with black borders is one of the ugliest things created by humankind. |
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| you know what's better, a subtitle that blends in the anime's environment... xD |
| i like white subs the most, but any color is fine with me as long as the subs are readable i guess. |
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| I can't stand red subs and other subs with no black outline. I prefer white with black outline the most. |
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| i prefer white subs with black outline |
| Font is generally more important than color since color is rarely obnoxiously bad, but I tend to prefer white with a black border to yellow. |
| White subs Yellow subs are racist because it is cultural appropriation of Asian skin color to use yellow subs |
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| yeap. its easier to read if its a white colour |
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| Not a huge deal but yeah white is easier to read then yellow so I don't really see why you would not use that |
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| I'd go with any mild light colours. White, light blue, dull yellow or light ink. The default seems to be white anyways, but I'd prefer multi-colour when many people are speaking. |
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| I liked mixed, because when 2 people are talking at the same time I easly know who is talking ^_^ |
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| I don't really care about the color, as long as the font is legible and aesthetically pleasing |
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I'm fine with subtitle colors but I can't stand shitty fonts like pic related. It may look fine in this picture but it's terrible in full screen. |
| So long as the font is clean and legible, and the color (if any) isn't too saturated/dark, I don't care what color the subtitles are. As an example, one anime I'm watching currently has white font with blood red outlines. That's fine, but if they used that same red for the ENTIRE font, it would become annoying as all hell. Color subtitles, imo, should generally stay in a very light hue (sky blue, easter green, etc), the only exception being yellow. That color can get away with being a bit more saturated since it stands out so well. Risara said: I'm fine with subtitle colors but I can't stand shitty fonts like pic related. It may look fine in this picture but it's terrible in full screen. While I do kinda like the choice of colors there (I'm a sucker for blue/white,), that font choice is just bad lol. I think there's something to be said about font fitting with the anime's theme too; that just doesn't look "Conan" to me at all. |
JG_WezzNov 19, 2016 9:24 AM
| White fill, colored outline for different characters. The standard white fill with black outline is just as fine. Yellow is a bit hard on my eyes. |
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| I prefer for them to be white, I forgot what show it was but I saw some anime once with comic sans font, it was annoying. |
| I prefer white with black outline. I don't know, I don't like how the yellows they use for subtitles look. |
| Most of the times I don't notice it anymore after like 5 minutes, so yeah... |
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| If it blends in with the colors behind it then yeah there would be an impact |
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| I do pretty good with either one, but white is sometimes harder for me to see |
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