Thread: osso-xterm w/ overlayed transparent keyboard
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2007-10-20 , 19:26
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Originally Posted by dnastase View Post
Colors, in general, are "de gustibus" (depend on one's taste). The optimal color is also highly dependent on the background color. So this one should be configurable.
Having seen a lot of subtitled movies, in which this is a similar problem, I'd say that the best result is:

White character, with a black halo (slight outline around the character). To achieve that, you wont be able to just use text, you'll probably have to make bitmaps/pixmaps of each character, with a 1 or 2 pixel black outline ... but it allows the white to stand out on light backgrounds.

Just my $.02