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The letters CC on a rounded card, marking captioned content.
Also known as: CC symbol, Captions icon, Subtitles symbol, Closed caption logo
Two Cs on a card shape mark content that carries captions which can be switched on. The distinction it encodes — closed captions the viewer turns on, versus open captions always burned into the picture — is the whole point of the word 'closed'.
Marks video content for which captions are available and can be switched on by the viewer.
Contexts: Public information
Means the captions are optional rather than permanent: 'closed' captions are carried alongside the picture and turned on by the viewer, while 'open' captions are part of the image and cannot be switched off.
Contexts: Public information
Is often used interchangeably with the subtitle symbol, although the two serve different needs: captions convey speaker identity and relevant non-speech sound, subtitles usually carry dialogue alone.
The distinction is maintained in broadcast practice and in accessibility guidance, but the two terms are used loosely by the public and by some streaming interfaces.
Contexts: Public information
Marks captions rather than subtitles, and the two are not the same thing. Captions transcribe speech *and* the sounds that carry meaning — a door slamming, music swelling, who is speaking off screen — because they are written for a viewer who cannot hear the soundtrack. Subtitles assume the viewer can hear and only need the words.
Contexts: Public information, Software
Means different things either side of the Atlantic. British broadcasters have long called the same thing 'subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing' and label it SDH or simply 'subtitles', so a viewer who learnt the distinction in the United States will find British menus using the other word for the same feature.
United States and United Kingdom · Contexts: Software
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
SDH label
'Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing', written out or abbreviated, used in place of the CC mark on British and European services and on many streaming platforms.
Two capital letter Cs side by side, the second often partly overlapping or set inside the first, on a rounded rectangular card.