A royalty free solution for the closed caption font requirements mandated by the FCC

Our closed caption fonts provide the best and most affordable typefaces for closed caption display. Unlike a painful per-unit license that renews every few years, we offer a one-time licensing fee for unlimited use across multiple platforms.

Get an evaluation copy of our closed caption fonts.

Most font suppliers deliver re-packaged fonts that are unsuitable for closed captions. These are the first set of fonts designed specifically for meeting FCC EIA-708B requirements (also known as CEA-708). They are more elegant, more legible, and more consistently designed for television applications than fonts provided by other suppliers and have been tested and refined on a broad range of DTV platforms. The font set also includes optional compact UI fonts, designed specifically for guide information and menu systems where space efficiency and legibility are extremely important.

Beyond the FCC Requirements

Our closed caption fonts go beyond the FCC requirements by including italics and containing Unicode characters that cover a wider range of languages including Albanian, Avar, Basque, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kalmyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese, Romani, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Tajik, Tatar, Turkish, Ukrainian & Welsh.

Captions of Hello in different languages using the Cinecav Sans closed-caption (cctv) font.


Sans – (708B) Proportionally Spaced Sans Serif
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Sans

Serif – (708B) Proportionally Spaced Serif
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Serif

Mono – (708B) Monospaced Sans Serif
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Monospaced

Type – (708B) Monospaced Serif
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Type

Casual – (708B) Casual
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Casual

Script – (708B) Cursive
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Script (Cursive)

Small Caps – (708B) Small Capitals
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - Small Caps

UI – A set of efficient fonts for guide data display and GUI menus. They’re not part of the FCC’s CC font requirements.
Cinecav Closed Caption font sample - UI Regular

 

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