: Drawing text on an image background that has dark and bright parts Often, I want to write text over a background image. If the background image is bright, I use a dark color for the text,

@Frith110

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Often, I want to write text over a background image. If the background image is bright, I use a dark color for the text, and vice versa. But, often the image has both dark and bright parts. So a dark text is unreadable on the dark parts, and a bright text is unreadable on the bright parts.

I currently use one of several solutions, all of them are imperfect:


Brighten the image and use a dark font, or darken the image and use a white font; the problem is that it reduces the beauty of the background image.
Use grey text (as in this question: Is there a single text color that is acceptable on both dark and light background? ). But grey text often looks unappealing, and is still only barely readable.
Use dark text, and try to position it on the bright spots of the image (or vice versa). This takes a lot of time because it requires me to position each word separately.


Are there better solutions to this problem?

In particular: is there an automatic tool that takes an image and a text, and positions the text only on the dark/bright parts of the image?

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