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CSS

Posted by Alexandros S.
Alexandros S.
8,261 Points

Double text color on text with a background image

I have a problem where I have some some text with a background image and its difficult to find a nice color that makes the text readable Is it possible to make text have two colors? LIke for example black on the outside and white in the inside, or is there some other solution for such a problem?

2 Answers

Aaron Herdzina
Aaron Herdzina
500 Points

There is probably a better was to do this that I am not aware of at the moment, but you can play around with text-shadow to see if you can use it to make the text more readable, for example:

** { color: black; text-shadow: -1px 1px white, 1px -1px white; }

Hope this helps!

Alexandros S.
Alexandros S.
8,261 Points
Alexandros S.
Alexandros S.
8,261 Points

Thanks Aaron, i tried and it seems to work well. :)