Caption style

Vintage Serif caption style

Vintage Serif caption style preview

Vintage Serif shows one word at a time in IM FELL English, an old-style serif, in white with a triple white glow and a faint dark shadow and no animation. It suits storytelling, history and quote clips where a period feel matters more than energy.

Font
IM FELL English
Case
Sentence case
Highlight
None, each word is shown alone in white
Animation
None, words cut in on the transcript timing
Background
Triple white glow with a faint dark shadow
Best for
Storytelling, history and quote clips

Vintage Serif is the one old-style serif in the gallery. IM FELL English is cut from seventeenth century type, with uneven strokes and a slightly worn edge, and here it is set in white, sentence case, one word at a time.

Three white glows at 10px blur and two faint black shadows at 1px and 2px give the letters a candlelit softness without a stroke or a box. There is no entrance animation, so the words simply appear on their timing.

Use it on narrated stories, history and book summaries, and quote clips over slow footage. It is a poor match for gaming or fast commentary, where Cyan Pop or Hard Pop will read better.

Use Vintage Serif on your next clipShows one word at a time. Included on every plan.
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FAQs

Frequent questions

Yes. Pick Vintage Serif, 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 IM FELL English 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 Vintage Serif with the one word at a time grouping switched on. 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 Vintage Serif and every other style in this gallery, plus the editor to customise them. Crayo itself is a paid subscription.

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