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Sometimes if the background has one main primary color like a star field you can add a little glow with a sample of the main bg color around the text to obscure the stars and make the text more readable.

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I have used this on other backgrounds as well, it won't work with everything of course but where it does work it's pretty useful.

Good suggestion, Curt!
Using your same strategy, in some cases a thin Stroke also works well at unobtrusively simplifying the area around text.


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It does indeed

Great tips Curt and Tim.