Please be aware that the following TTSG updates are all now live.
For more detail, please refer to the change log on each of the individual timed text style guide pages. Click on the section titles below to go directly to each guideline.
Product Supplementals and Marketing Assets Style Guide
- Please be aware that this style guide has been condensed and revised as follows
- The guideline now focuses on aligning with audio, reading speed and condensing, duration, line treatment, character limit, censorship/swearing, titles, songs, main titles and translator credits
- For everything else, refer to the main language and translation TTSGs
- The guideline now has a clearer distinction between product supplementals and marketing assets in terms of aligning with audio, condensing text and reading speed, safe area/character limit, censorship and titles
- If in doubt about any of these aspects, speak to your Netflix contact
- New TTSG now available
- A new section covering translation and transliteration approaches has been added
- Edits to the copy and examples have been made in the sections covering language style, acronyms and abbreviations, character names, italics, hashtags, SDH and FNs for Arabic content
- Revised advice regarding translation of Spanish dialogue for subtitles and SDH
- Minor adjustments have been made to the following sections: Abbreviations, Foreign Dialogue, Numbers, Quotations, Special Instructions
- Edits include additional advice regarding placement of quotation marks, use of comma decimal separators and italicization
- Revised advice regarding translation of Spanish dialogue for subtitles and SDH
- Additional wording in the references section
- The Abbreviations & Acronyms section has been replaced with an external resource
- Minor revisions to the sections covering abbreviations, dual speakers, on-screen text, quotations, editing for reading speed and handling of episode titles
- Several additions to the SDH section
- The Documentary/Unscripted section has been removed, advice is covered elsewhere
- Advice added confirming that en-AU and en-ZA should also follow the English (UK) TTSG
- Minor revisions to wording around use of double hyphens vs. ellipses, writing out numbers, minor utterances in SDH
- Minor adjustments have been implemented in the continuity section
- Revised advice regarding translation of Spanish dialogue for subtitles and SDH
- Incorrect external links replaced
- Extended wording has been added around handling of capitalization of foreign words, the spelling of "OK", handling of episode titles
- A more comprehensive SDH section has been added
- Minor edits have been made to the sections covering continuity, on-screen text, titles and SDH
- The acronyms section has been extended to include handling of Latin alphabet characters
- Additions and minor revisions have been made to the opening section, italics, numbers, songs, rules for bleeped dialogue, dual speaker subtitles in SDH, songs and music in SDH, speaker IDs and sound effects in SDH
- Additions to the sections covering continuity, on-screen text and numbers
- Minor revisions to the sections covering abbreviations (change to rule about % and spaces), italics in songs, italics for some foreign words
- Characters per row limit increased to 42 CPR
- Minor revisions to the sections covering foreign dialogue, italics, numbers and the Special Instructions section
- Minor revisions to the sections covering abbreviations, character names, documentary/unscripted, on-screen text, italics, numbers and SDH
- Line treatment section revised with new examples covering the ideal approach to line length
- Additional resource added to the references section
- Revised wording around contained sentences in dual speaker subtitles
- Revised and new approaches to speaker IDs, sound effects and foreign dialogue in SDH
- New example for use of Chinese of parentheses for on-screen text
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Revised advice regarding placement of quotations marks around punctuation