I think you're right about the red - I sometimes find I match a colour exactly for the text, but then have to lighten ot darken it a few shades because it doesn't look exact.
The trick is to outline text. In this case I'd leave the colour the way it is and put a pixel of white around the lower words, which would only show up on the dark background. kerravonsen has some great tutorials on that. :-)
It's one of those optical illusions, where the colour is the same but looks different because of different surroundings. I think darkening it would help, though you might need to outline it as vilakins suggests to make sure the text stands out against his suit.
Not sure what you're using - I'm on Gimp, and use this method for outlining text passed on to me by trixieleitz1. Set the foreground colour to the stroke colour
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Depending on the program there are a number of ways to make text stand out. Already mentioned are outlining & drop shadowing (almost always I use one or both as these are easiest in my program), but there's also selecting on the background layer a rounded edge box a little larger than the text and filling this with a color that will show up the text (or, if the background is an image you can either lighten or darken the box to make text stand out) or you can make a sort of cartoon balloon for the text, outlined in black or left white, whichever works best.
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I think you're right about the red - I sometimes find I match a colour exactly for the text, but then have to lighten ot darken it a few shades because it doesn't look exact.
But it's inspired :)
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The trick is to outline text. In this case I'd leave the colour the way it is and put a pixel of white around the lower words, which would only show up on the dark background. kerravonsen has some great tutorials on that. :-)
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Not sure what you're using - I'm on Gimp, and use this method for outlining text passed on to me by trixieleitz1. Set the foreground colour to the stroke colour ( ... )
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Suggestion for making the text stand out: I usually use drop shadows of some sort, to as vilakins says, outline the words.
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Depending on the program there are a number of ways to make text stand out. Already mentioned are outlining & drop shadowing (almost always I use one or both as these are easiest in my program), but there's also selecting on the background layer a rounded edge box a little larger than the text and filling this with a color that will show up the text (or, if the background is an image you can either lighten or darken the box to make text stand out) or you can make a sort of cartoon balloon for the text, outlined in black or left white, whichever works best.
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