18 Words
The words chino uses for its own things. Each means one thing, in every app. The general rules for writing are in the design system's meaningful text and content & voice.
These are the target's words. Where an app says something else today, the chapter of that screen says so in its section “As deployed” and lists the new words as a numbered change: the subtitle and audio tags are change 12.C3 of chapter 12, the notifications' words change 15.C1 of chapter 15.
18.1 The word list
Section titled “18.1 The word list”| Use | For | Not |
|---|---|---|
| “(CC)” | Subtitles that also describe sounds and name who speaks, a tag after the language: “English (CC)” (chapter 12) | “SDH”, “for deaf and hard of hearing”, “hearing impaired” |
| “(AI)” | Subtitles made by the platform, a tag after the language: “German (AI)”; two tags share one bracket, “English (CC, AI)”, and a language's own bracket stays, “Chinese (Simplified) (AI)” | “auto”, “generated”, “· AI” |
| “foreign-language parts” | The lines in another language that come on by themselves, with the audio's language; they are never a row of the panel (chapter 12) | “forced”, “foreign-language parts only” as a track's name |
| “(audio description)” | An audio track with a voice that describes the picture: “English (audio description)” | “AD”, “described video”, “visually impaired” |
| “(5.1)”, “(stereo)” | An audio track's channels, a tag only where two tracks of one language would read the same without it: “English (5.1)”, “English (stereo)” | a codec, “AAC”, “MP4A.40.2”, “6 channels” |
| “audio and subtitles” | The player's panel that picks both, and its button (chapter 12) | “languages”, “tracks”, “audio & subtitles” |
| “subtitle timing” | Moving the subtitles earlier or later, in the player's settings menu: “+0.25s”, “−0.50s” | “subtitle delay”, “offset”, “sync” |
| “Portuguese (Brazil)” | A language with its region or script in brackets: “Chinese (Simplified)” | “Brazilian Portuguese”, “pt-BR” |
| “movies” | Films, as the app's tab says | “films” |
| “account” | Who is watching, as the account picker says | “profile”, “user” |
| “downloads”, “on this phone” | What is stored on the device (“on this tablet” on a tablet) | “offline mode”, “sync”, “cache” |
| “finished” | Watched to the end, or into its last minutes (chapter 11) | “completed” |
| “Medium (720p)” | A quality: its name and its height, from the table in chapter 11 | “adaptive streaming”, a height or a bitrate alone, “High (source)” |
| “notifications” | What the bell holds (chapter 15) | “notices”, “alerts” |
| “Original” (a quality) | The file a title was packaged from, played as it is: the quality “Original” in the player's settings menu (chapter 11) | “source”, “High (source)” |
| “Original”, “(original)” (audio) | The language a title was made in: the audio setting's “Original” (chapter 16), and the tag on that language's audio rows, “English (original)” (chapter 12) | “default”, “native” |
| “settings” | In the player, the menu of this playback's quality and subtitle timing (chapter 11); elsewhere the view that holds the account's settings (chapter 16) | “options”, “preferences” |
| “Watchlist” | The list every account has; it keeps its name, and the view that holds it with the other lists is “watchlist” (chapter 8) | “favourites”, “my list” |
| “list” | A named list of titles that an account made; making one is “create list” | “collection”, “playlist”, “new list” |
| “specials” | A show's episodes outside its numbered seasons (chapter 6) | “season 0”, “extras” |
| “cast & crew” | The people of a title, on its page | “credits” |
| “in the library” | What of a person's work the library holds, on their page (chapter 7) | “filmography” |
| “the people who run this server” | Who receives a bug report | “the dev backlog” |
“Original” names two things, told apart by where it stands: in the player's settings menu it is the file, in the audio setting and on an audio row the language. They never share a list.
- shows or series. Every app's navigation says shows, and so do the drawings in this specification; the web's title badge says series. Recommendation: shows everywhere, and “series” nowhere on a screen.