# Font styles for EBU-TT-D
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This section applies if you are [setting up EBU-TT-D captions](output-sidecar-and-smptett-mss.md) from source captions that are embedded or Teletext captions. You can optionally specify some of the font style information. 

An EBU-TT-D caption encode consists of an XML file that the downstream system reads and processes. This XML file includes a section for font style information. You can specify some of this information.

1. In the output that has the EBU-TT-D captions, display the section for the captions.

1. Complete these fields. For details about a field on the MediaLive console, choose the **Info** link next to the field.
   + **Style control**
   + **Fill line gap**
   + **Font family**

This setup results in one of the following options:

The XML file for the captions includes the following style information:


| Style information | Value in XML file for Include option | Value in XML file for Exclude option | 
| --- | --- | --- | 
| Font style information (position, alignment, italics, and so on) | Set to match the source captions. | Left blank. | 
| Font color and background color | Set to match the source captions. | Set to white font and black background. | 
| Font size  | Set to 100%. | Set to 100%. | 
| Font family | Set to the value that you specified in Font family. | Set to monospaced. | 
| Line gap  | Set up to match the value that you specified in Fill line gap.  | Set up to leave the gap unfilled. |