What the current desktop (with nautilus) is doing is to have a border around the text in an "opposite" color, this way you always get contrast, if it's not with the border it's with the font one ... could be an approach to take here
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391560 Title: [themes] [design] Develop a strategy to keep fonts readable wherever we allow the user setting his own background image Status in Ubuntu UX bugs: New Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: As discussed with Olga, we need to develop a strategy on keeping the fonts readable when we allow the user to change the background. This is currently the case on the Greeter and the Lockscreens. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ux/+bug/1391560/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

