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Subtitle display & themes

Display tab in the dark theme Display tab in the light theme

Subtitle appearance

The Display tab sets the subtitles' colours, background opacity (0 % means no box at all), font size (7 sizes), font (8 system fonts), text weight, and shadow or outline, with a live preview.

Subtitle layout

  • Position: bottom, top, or wherever you last dragged the subtitles on the page (double-click them to reset).
  • Original text (in Bilingual Mode): above or below the translation, and how big it is.
  • History lines: show the latest line only, or one or two earlier lines too.
  • Keep subtitle box on screen: keeps the box visible between lines.

How long each line stays up is set on the Tuning tab: Extra Time On Screen and Minimum Display Time.

Themes

The popup comes in:

  • Dark and Light (the default): flat charcoal or white surfaces with a pale-blue status card, squarer corners and sentence-case titles — the same look as this site;
  • Glass Dark and Glass Light: a glowing lavender background with see-through panels;
  • Sakura Light and Sakura Dark: cherry-blossom pinks on a blush page or a plum night, in the glass style;
  • the OLED family with a blue accent: OLED Light (white), OLED Dim (dark navy) and OLED Black (true black #000, with no background glow: on OLED and AMOLED screens, black pixels are switched off);
  • System, which follows Windows' light or dark setting (with Light or Dark);
  • Custom, your own.

Dark and Light also change the popup's layout (corners and titles); the other themes only change colours.

Custom theme

Pick Custom and set:

  • Style: Studio (the layout of Dark and Light), Glass (glowing background and see-through panels, like Glass Dark and Glass Light) or Flat (solid surfaces, like the OLED themes);
  • Start from: any built-in theme, as a starting point;
  • Colours: background, panels, accent and buttons;
  • Text: headings, labels, text, hints and dropdowns.

Text that would be hard to read on your background is lightened or darkened just enough to stay readable. Save it with a display config to keep several.