Retro Broadcast
1980s TV bulletin: curved CRT edges, scanlines, chroma bleed and formal centred framing.
- Pace
- Medium pace, gentle dissolves
- Display font
- Space Grotesk
- Body font
- Inter
- Category
- News & Journalism
Where to use this theme
- Retro recaps and this-week-in-history formats
- Nostalgia and media-history content
- Deliberately dated comedy bits
Think twice for
- Current news that should feel current
- Anything needing crisp detail
Choosing Retro Broadcast
What it buys you, and what it costs you. Both matter — you are locking every scene in the video to this.
Advantages
- Sets a period with no explanation needed
- Charming and distinctive against modern looks
- Formal framing suits a scripted read
Trade-offs
- Signal noise and tracking wobble eat bitrate and blur detail
- The washed-out videotape colour makes weak thumbnails
What every scene is told to look like
This line goes into the prompt for every single image in your video. It is why scene 3 and scene 27 look like the same production, and it is the whole job of a theme.
1980s analogue television bulletin look, softly curved CRT screen edges with visible scanlines and faint signal noise, boxy chroma-key panel standing behind the presenter, washed-out videotape colour with chroma bleed, tracking wobble along the frame edges, formal centred broadcast framing
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