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This is a nice step, but not good enough for practical use. Put the text half on the black lamp, half off, and you get 1/2 invisible text. While interesting, it's not reliably accurate enough to use in any sort of automated fashion.
This is a nice step, but not good enough for practical use. Put the text half on the black lamp, half off, and you get 1/2 invisible text. While interesting, it's not reliably accurate enough to use in any sort of automated fashion.
What you should most definitely not do, is give each character (or word) its own colour depending on the background. As others pointed out, this would be a pain to implement, wrapping everything in spans etc, but most importantly it also just looks terrible.
Though the very first step is to simply try and see if you can avoid the situation entirely :) [which may be harder if the images are user supplied]
This is a nice step, but not good enough for practical use. Put the text half on the black lamp, half off, and you get 1/2 invisible text. While interesting, it's not reliably accurate enough to use in any sort of automated fashion.
I'll start by saying that I think this is pretty cool and clever, and pretty useful for text. It works great on Safari. I should however add, that while moving the elements over the picture, I didn't once lose sight of my cursor, as it is black with a white outline, which seems to be a much simpler solution to the problem.
Agree 100%, especially when it comes to the text elements. Even if they expanded the system such that it were capable of automatically creating spans in the text to adjust from white to black depending upon the background color under specific letters, having the text switch from black to white and back again along with the background would look horrible and would be terrible for reading. But using high contrast outli…
Sometimes the answer might be yet a different color of text (not black or white), although that too has design downfalls.
But all that said, tools to help text and other elements adapt to background images are mighty helpful. I'd definitely consider using this, even as is.
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Agree 100%, especially when it comes to the text elements. Even if they expanded the system such that it were capable of automatically creating spans in the text to adjust from white to black depending upon the background color under specific letters, having the text switch from black to white and back again along with the background would look horrible and would be terrible for reading. But using high contrast outli…
I'd add that though we've adapted to the look of a cursor, the designer in me cringes at the thought of outlined text (though I'm willing to allow that there are probably applications of this that work elegantly; I just can't picture any). Sometimes the answer might be yet a different color of text (not black or white), although that too has design downfalls. But all that said, tools to help text and other elements a…
Outlined text is quite common in videos (e.g. for subtitles or credits). The outline doesn't disturb at all if done properly — it doesn't have to be thick, a subtle shadow will usually suffice.