Digital TV Closed Captioning Fonts (EIA-708-B)

Ascender TV Font Collection - Closed Captioning fonts

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Ascender offers closed caption fonts designed and tuned for on-screen legibility that meet the requirements of the EIA-708-B standard for Digital TV Closed Captioning (DTVCC). Closed captioning is a technology that allows text to be superimposed over the video to benefit persons with hearing disabilities. All television receivers in the United States are mandated by the FCC to include support for the EIA-708-B closed captioning standard. EIA-708-B includes a range of options to display closed caption text, including a variety of closed caption font styles in different sizes and colors, and support for Unicode.

The Ascender TV Closed Caption Font Collection consists of closed captioning fonts designed and tuned specifically for on-screen legibility. Each of these closed caption fonts make closed captioning text readable and attractive. Ascender's CCTV closed caption fonts address the seven different font styles and character sets as mandated by the FCC

Below is an illustration of the Lucida® font family designed by Bigelow & Holmes as one of the first harmonized families for reproduction on low resolution devices. Between all the Lucida fonts there is a consistency of capital heights, x-heights and main stem weights.

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Ascender is proud to offer the Lucida fonts, and also has a set of CCTV closed caption fonts licensed from Microsoft® available for developers. The Ascender TV Closed Caption Font Collection is available for integration into 708 caption decoders that are required in all DTV receivers. Ascender's closed caption fonts are available in a variety of font formats, including TrueType and OpenType, and in customized character sets to address world-wide markets.

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Resources:

FCC Closed Captioning

FCC Digital Television Overview