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Sean Zdenek

soundwriting, visual design, inclusive media, rhetoric

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When a yellow subtitle meets a character from The Simpsons

Posted on December 18, 2015August 15, 2018 by Sean Zdenek
A frame from The Simpsons' Barthood episode featuring a closed caption with a black background around the caption to provide contrast

A comparison of the default yellow closed captions on Hulu.com with the yellow skin color of the animated characters on The Simpsons.

Read the full post on ReadingSounds.net.

Posted in Captioning, Visual DesignTagged Color, Hulu, Pantone 116 c, Simpsons, Yellow

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