The Gradian journal

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Short guides on Hinglish captions, word timing and caption styles, written by the team that builds Gradian.

Hinglish captions should read the way people type.

Roman or Devanagari, “hai” or “hain”, English words or transliterated ones: a practical guide to captions for code-switched speech.

Glass, neon, punch words or plain white? How to match a caption preset to the pace, tone and footage of what you actually made.

Why captions that arrive a beat early or late feel wrong, and a simple routine for word-level timing that makes any preset look better.

Before you add another animation, look at the line break. A practical approach to readable, expressive captions that work with the picture.

A repeatable finishing pass for browser-based creative work: content, framing, audio, output settings, and a file you can actually use.

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