Caption style

Black Box caption style

Black Box caption style preview

Black Box sets each line of Secular One in white inside a black box with 4px rounded corners, and each line fades out as it ends. It suits interviews, documentary-style clips and news content where the captions should look like broadcast subtitles.

Font
Secular One
Case
As spoken
Highlight
None, every word stays white
Animation
Line fades out
Background
Black rounded box
Best for
Interviews, documentaries and news clips

Black Box is the neutral boxed style. Secular One, a clean rounded sans, is set in white on a solid black box with 10px of horizontal padding and 4px corners, with no stroke or shadow, so it looks like a subtitle track from a documentary.

The only motion is a fade out over the last 40 percent of each line. Every word stays white, so there is no spoken-word highlight to distract from the speaker.

Use it on interviews, documentaries, news and corporate clips. Light Box is the light-mode version with a grey-to-black karaoke effect, and Blue Box the louder colour version.

Use Black Box on your next clipShows a full line with the spoken word marked. Included on every plan.
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FAQs

Frequent questions

Yes. Pick Black Box, then open Customise in the editor to change the text colour, the highlight colour, the font and where the captions sit. The change applies to the whole transcript at once, so you keep the same motion and layout with your own palette.

Yes. The style is language neutral: the font, colours and animation apply to whatever language Crayo transcribes. Spanish uses Latin letters, which Secular One is built for. For scripts such as Arabic, Hebrew or Japanese, swap the font in Customise and keep the rest of the look.

Auto Clip clips open in the Crayo editor, and the Styles panel lists Black Box with line grouping, which is the default. Tap it once and it applies to every line of the transcript.

There is no separate charge for caption styles. Every Crayo plan, Hobby, Clipper and Pro, includes Black Box and every other style in this gallery, plus the editor to customise them. Crayo itself is a paid subscription.

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