# Vertical subtitle position options

**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/vertical-subtitle-position-options/876471
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Tags:** subtitles
**Created:** [April 30, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/vertical-subtitle-position-options/876471 "2024-04-30T22:26:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![itaihoffman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/94ad74/32.png) [@itaihoffman](https://forums.plex.tv/u/itaihoffman)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/vertical-subtitle-position-options/876471/1 "2024-04-30T22:26:24Z")

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Hi! Could you please add a way to choose the vertical position of the subtitles, as well as font, color, and boldness? I have tunnel vision and can only focus on one area of the screen at once, and it helps if its high contrast. Thanks!

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### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2024, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/vertical-subtitle-position-options/876471/2 "2024-04-30T23:51:27Z")

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On what particular app are you missing this option?  
e.g. Plex for Android TV, HTPC and the iOS apps should already allow that.  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/settings-android-tv/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/settings-android-tv/)  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/htpc-settings/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/htpc-settings/)  
[https://support.plex.tv/articles/205671068-settings-plex-for-ios/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/205671068-settings-plex-for-ios/)

Plex Web also has an option to specify the vertical subtitle position (though it’s not specifically mentioned in the support articles (`Settings` \> `Plex Web` \> `Player` \> `Subtitle Position`) – same for the regular desktop app.

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There’s been an existing suggestion asking for similar support in different other platforms – as well as an option to configure font, colors etc. You might want to comment/vote in that thread in order to help us avoid distracting or cannibalizing votes.

> [@Subtitles settings (font, color, offset time, position)](https://forums.plex.tv/t/subtitles-settings-font-color-offset-time-position/232538):
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> Plex is almost perfect to me except it does not allow user to change subtitles color, font, offset time, etc… like common HD video players else. It’s painful for my myopic eyes to keep watching the thin-white text. Plex did very well the major things such as playback quality, video/audio format, library… but the subtitles is fixed in white (?)… I’m quite shock, especially when I did search “subtitles color” in this forum and found that this issue was mentioned from 2012 but never be solved. I’…

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### Author: ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2024, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/vertical-subtitle-position-options/876471/3 "2024-06-01T17:17:31Z")

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2024 clean-up:

- implemented on various platforms (see above)
- duplicate (see above)
- abandoned
