Packaging: Titles, Thumbnails & Hooks
Text stroke
Also called: outline, text outline
Add a stroke and every letter gets a hard edge in a contrasting colour, usually black round white type. It buys separation when the words have to sit over skin, sky or motion blur. Two strokes are common, a thin one tight to the letterform and a much thicker one further out that still reads as a solid shape once the thumbnail shrinks to phone size.
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