that particular font. Thin-typed sans almost always come out that way.
Even more so when your drop shadow and color (blue/black) blend
together. try lightening the drop shadow, or change its color, adding
contrasting backgrounds (basic color theory here.), using a reverse
color/font technique or altering the actual font color itself to
something that doesn't bleed quite so much, increasing size and weight
work well too. Heck, personally I'd go for an entirely different font
all together. I can't see your mockup or layout result, so that's about
all there is to comment - massive whitespace can very much skew the eyes
interpretation of color. And remember, good typography is an art in
itself.
As a suggestion - not to be uber-trendy, or anything, but bitmap fonts
work well for nav elements, buttons, etc. due to their crisp legible
nature at small and medium sizes. But then, I guess drop-shadows are
kinda trendy too. go fig.
For example:
http://atomicmedia.net/singles.php
http://miniml.com/fonts/
http://www.dafont.com/en/bitmap.php?page=1
Good luck,
Erik Yowell
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http://www.shortfusemedia.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Champagne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:05 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Slightly OT: Graphics expert?
Anybody here really good with graphics? We have a designer here who is
having a lot of trouble creating text graphics (for navigation, say)
that
are not all fuzzy around the edges. She swears that she has tried
everything in Photoshop, filters, etc, but they still look like crap.
The
way that she is doing them is just not going to fly with professional
web
sites. So, my question is, does anybody have a surefire way to create
crisp, non pixelated or fuzzy text graphics in Photoshop that they care
to
share with us?
BTW, I know about css and rollover effects, etc, but we sometimes need
to
have drop shadows and other effects that I don't think that you can get
with css.
Any help or pointers to tutorials that we have not found would be
appreciated.
You can see an example of what I am talking about here:
http://www.crystalvisionwebdesign.com/test/index2.html
(ignore the ugly js error - she isn't a programmer by any means)
Thanks!
Ray
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