Typography and TV Captioning

by Joe Clark.

Typography, like many of the graphic arts, is a rather static medium. By its very nature, the printed page tends to limit the liveliness of type. But that isn’t so on television, where technology helps letters come alive in ways the printed page can’t reproduce. That’s especially true in one particular video art – television captioning, or subtitling programs for the hearing-impaired. Everyone knows that TV is a tremendous source of information and entertainment, but until recently deaf persons knew this only intellectually. Unable to hear part or, often, all of the soundtrack, the hearing-impaired viewer is cut off from much of the meaningfulness of television. The impact of TV depends largely on sound, and captioning is the best way to represent that component for a deaf audience. [via]

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