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u/HotRodLincoln Jun 10 '12
Pretty much any text with a different color stroke can be read on any background. Heavy drop shadows and bevel effects also work wonders and don't make the project look like it was done by a design school freshman.
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u/Software_Engineer Jun 10 '12
don't forget generous lens flares
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u/annoyinglyclever Jun 10 '12
Settle down, JJ Abrams.
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u/theyellowmouse Jun 10 '12
You only fulfilled one half of your user name. I was not annoyed at all.
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u/Sqornshellous Jun 10 '12
But you do seem to be annoyed about NOT being annoyed.His work is done.
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u/ChemicalRascal Jun 10 '12
You didn't fufil any part of your username. I'm not yellow or a mouse.
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u/Sheather Jun 10 '12
But how do you know he isn't?
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u/ChemicalRascal Jun 10 '12
Because we're the same person, silly.
Don't you know that reddit is really just a single person, and the entire website was built and is maintained purely to entertain you?
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u/drhilarious Jun 10 '12
implying drop shadows and bevel effects don't look like they were done by a high school freshman
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Jun 10 '12
>not escaping your greentext
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u/cuppincayk Jun 10 '12
Every time I'm forced to do a power point for college I do this with my text. makes everything legible!
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Like red text with a green stroke?
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u/HotRodLincoln Jun 10 '12
Legible? yes;
A good idea? only between December 1st and December 25th
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u/simohayha Jun 10 '12
IT'S CALLED STROKE
USE THE FUCKING STROKE FEATURE IN PHOTOSHOP
WRITE SOME FUCKING TEXT, DOUBLE CLICK THE TEXT LAYER, AND CLICK ON STROKE.
FUCK
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u/clockwisecarrot Jun 10 '12
we kill the batman
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u/Gillas Jun 10 '12
And How are you planning to do that..
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u/vierce Jun 10 '12
Simply.
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u/MrCaffeine Jun 10 '12
How to make this text in GIMP:
Right-click the text layer and click "alpha to selection"
Make a new layer and put it under the text
Go to select -> grow and grow your selection 2-5 pixels
Fill selection with black
Now you have NO EXCUSE.
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u/black_house Jun 10 '12
In Gimp 2.8, there is a Stroke Selection/Stroke Path option under 'Edit' (with anti-aliasing), making it even more simple.
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Jun 10 '12
that feature's been there long before 2.8
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u/black_house Jun 10 '12
Sure has, however I believe the anti-alias feature is new.
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also no. stroke can use your selected brush, which has had aliasing options and more for as long as i can remember, and i've been using gimp for several years now
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u/black_house Jun 10 '12
Yeah and you can still do that, too. The anti-aliasing WITHOUT the brush option is new.
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Jun 10 '12
Photomanipulation has interesting hacks, it's crazy what professional people can do with it. Your example was super simple though but I never heard about that.
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u/cuppincayk Jun 10 '12
And can be read by the color blind. I wish everyone did this instead of being assholes.
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u/M0T0BACKhand Jun 10 '12
*idiots
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u/Dinosaur_Boner Jun 10 '12
*fucknuts
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*twollywonkers
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u/FolloweroftheAtom Jun 10 '12
*fucksticks
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u/BeethovenFanatic Jun 10 '12
*dickbiscuits
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u/I_Am_Axiom Jun 10 '12
This was on my front page, and I immediately thought by the thumbnail that it was a post about homosexuality on /r/atheism...
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u/FlyingGreenSuit Jun 10 '12
color + contrasting color outline pretty much always works. Some look better for other reasons, though (for example, white with black outline is better than black with white imo)
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u/QJosephP Jun 10 '12
What is the name of this font?
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u/AmalgamatedMan Jun 10 '12
As mentioned in another comment, Impact
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u/PPSF Jun 10 '12
Try your caps lock key.
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u/QJosephP Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
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u/Sonderling Jun 10 '12
I'm not sure how to do it in Paint (or if it's possible), but most other paint programs allow you to use the secondary color to create an outline for the text.
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you can do it letter by letter in paint (more or less) by using different size fonts for each color.
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u/pandubear Jun 10 '12
The outline isn't actually part of the font. With a lot of image editors, you can create an outline. This comment explains how to do it with GIMP.
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u/Haasts_Eagle Jun 10 '12
Still couldn't read the u in colour!
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u/jogz699 Jun 10 '12
In the early 18th century, English spelling was not standardised. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Today's British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), whereas many American English spellings follow Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g. colour, flavour, harbour, honour, humour, labour, neighbour, rumour) end in -or in American English (cf. color, flavor, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor). Wherever the vowel is unreduced in pronunciation, this does not occur: e.g. contour, velour, paramour and troubadour are spelled thus the same everywhere.
Source: Wikipedia.
Stop being a condescending asshole.
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u/FetchingCrow Jun 10 '12
What if he was just making a joke? I don't see how you got "condescending asshole" from such a simple sentence.
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u/Haasts_Eagle Jun 10 '12
Thanks for coming to my aid. I crossed my fingers hoping people wouldn't think I was uppity!
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Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Still looks bad if you use Impact. I can't stand it when people use it, makes it look like you just ran it through some meme generator.
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u/evmax318 Jun 10 '12
Well at least dyslexics can read it now.
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u/CatboyMac Jun 10 '12
Using Impact on image macros predates memgenerator by almost a decade.
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I know that, but the proliferation of meme generators resulted in me now associating Impact with them.
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u/CatboyMac Jun 10 '12
Further proof that they ruin everything.
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Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
And before the automated advice animal meme implementers, everyone who didn't know how to put a tex on imaeg used demotivator generators to ruin the subverted motivational poster format.
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u/03Titanium Jun 10 '12
I want to believe someone somewhere has made a presentation using meme generator and playing the photo sideshow.
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u/Soggydoughnuts Jun 10 '12
People have to start somewhere. If you like impact move to bebas it is far superior in every way shape and form.
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I actually use Bebas for a lot of things.
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u/Soggydoughnuts Jun 10 '12
It's a beautiful typeface. I love it.
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u/spillfish Jun 10 '12
THAT'S THREE PEOPLE; NO ONE ELSE USE BEBAS OR IT'LL BE OVERUSED AND EVERYONE WILL HATE YOU.
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u/kyle2143 Jun 10 '12
This is great in fact. Still, this reminds me of how some people are so idiotic in the way that they use colored words on similarly colored backgrounds. Even in college, I've had to suffer through powerpoint presentations where people can't seem to understand that nobody could possibly read what they wrote on their slides because of it.
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u/sval Jun 10 '12
This is what I use for each and every video I make too. Impact font with white inside, faint black outline+shadow = readable 24/7
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Jun 10 '12
Ok, so how do you do it on paint?
Because let's be honest, some people still use MS Paint to make memes or other things, and it'd be nice to know how to do that on there.
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u/makemeking706 Jun 10 '12
Well LPT turned to shit pretty quick.
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u/Blazeinpain Jun 10 '12
This is a tip that can be used on anything from memes to powerpoints for a high end company, it rightfully belongs here
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u/MJM247 Jun 10 '12
And yet the people who put subtitles in movies still don't know this. Honestly, who picked yellow?
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u/skwirl37 Jun 10 '12
Fun fact: That's why your mouse is white with a black outline.
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u/SexWithTwins Jun 10 '12
No it isn't
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u/Choreboy Jun 10 '12
It isn't why? Or your mouse isn't white with a black outline?
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u/skwirl37 Jun 10 '12
Yes, it is. If your mouse is anything other than that, you're a huge faggot.
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u/jamierc Jun 10 '12
Or just stop using memes.
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u/styleevivant Jun 10 '12
In my day, these used to be called "image macros." When the hell did that change?
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u/logantauranga Jun 10 '12
Photographic backgrounds are the trickiest. Sometimes you need to apply a blur to parts of them just to make outlined text sufficiently legible.
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u/moscheles Jun 10 '12
Anyone know a simple app that can do this kind of outlined text? By "simple" I can create this effect using microsoft paint bucket, but it takes like 10 steps using layers. I want something fast and cheap and simple. (I mean not like $400 Adobe software that takes 4GBs to download.)
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u/deephair Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
Could someone please let people who do subtitles on TV shows this.
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u/agbullet Jun 10 '12
You missed the opportunity of presenting this LPT using an advice dog template.
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The closed captioning on Netflix was horrible the last time I tried to use it -- the yellow text blended with the movie I was watching.
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u/AerianaEve Jun 10 '12
That is surprisingly helpful! Now all the poorly written captions on my home movies can actually be read!
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u/pip-squeak Jun 10 '12
woh. glad I didn't go to art school, this is all the learnin' I need. thanks!
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u/skullbeats Jun 10 '12
Does anybody know any good website where you can make words like these on a picture you upload, so you can use it yourself? (Other than meme websites)
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u/EVILEMU Jun 10 '12
wow, my web design class just got a lot easier.
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u/Cintax Jun 10 '12
You can't specify a CSS text stroke in older browsers (IE9 and below don't support it iirc), so if you add design elements with a text outline, it has to be an image, which means it can't be dynamically generated and it's bad for SEO.
Long story short, this is useless for the web.
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u/EVILEMU Jun 11 '12 edited Jun 11 '12
I do a lot of web graphics with photoshop and fireworks, maybe i should have been more specific lol. I think this is very useful for the web. Here's the site my professor used as a trainwreck scenerio for website text hierarchy, contrast, color scheme, readibility, navigation, and just about anything else you can screw up in a website. I think this guy could use the advice :P I stay away from any complicated CSS, especially with text effects, due to cross compatibility. Gotta keep it web safe. I don't do much fancy but i'll use flash where i can for that stuff.
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u/Tashre Jun 10 '12
Simple drop shadow in Paint:
Type out text in black and position it.
Type out text with same font and size in color of choice and position it just offset the black text.
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u/GunRaptor Jun 10 '12
I found the source of this on reddit.
Seems to come from the Avatar: The Last Airbender subreddit.
Just FYI
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u/rorykane Jun 10 '12 edited Jun 10 '12
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u/desponia Jun 10 '12
I wish people subbing animes would realize this. I can't read your white text over white text, ass holes.
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u/Luxray Jun 10 '12
Similarly, white text on a black background is literally painful to read.
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u/Luxray Jun 10 '12
Maybe it's just me then. Websites that have white text on a black background and nothing else literally hurt my eyes after about 2 seconds of reading.
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u/theratwhisperer Jun 10 '12
This! Nothing worse than a powerpoint with a blue background and some awful green font.