Colored shadow for pixel fonts

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For nearly every pixel font I use in the (clist_modern)contact list, a colored 
shadow - for black 0, 0, 0 font, the shadow is bright green - is generated. The 
darker the specified font color, the darker the colored shadow.I attached an 
example. Any idea what might be causing this?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by dr.dave....@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2010 at 10:45

Attachments:

• uni_05_54_green_shadow.png

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Not sure this is a bug in Modern. It could have something to do with 
transparency in the skin or in settings.

Original comment by sami%mir...@gtempaccount.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 9:50

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That occurred to me too but I haven't found any setting that fixes this. Can 
you suggest something in particular I might check or change?

Original comment by dr.dave....@gmail.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 11:10

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Not really because I wasn't able to reproduce this properly. I just remembered 
this when I saw something similar with plain white Arial text on a transparent 
Modern skin. The color went away after picking a "better" font or some other 
color or any effect...

Original comment by sami%mir...@gtempaccount.com on 6 Nov 2010 at 11:55

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Would it be useful for me to send you the font that's producing this result?

Original comment by dr.dave....@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 5:39

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I don't think it's specific to any one font, but please do tell what it is. 
Also a the skin you use, and text style and effect would be good to know.

Original comment by sami%mir...@gtempaccount.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 11:21

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Actually, I think it's specific to pixelated fonts. The one I'm using is 
uni_o5_54. The skin is Case though varying the skin or the effect doesn't make 
a difference. I did find though, that the effect is strongly present only for 
regular and bold, not for italic or bold italic. In fact, I just discovered 
that there is an issue with the color spectrum used for smoothing: For the font 
I'm using, the spectrum includes a wide range of hues for italic and bold 
italic but is entirely in the green and yellow region for regular and bold. For 
most fonts (non-pixelated), the spectrum is wide-ranging regardless of style. 
The fact is though, there should be no smoothing for a pixelated font. In other 
applications like rainmeter, it's possible to turn off smoothing 
(anti-aliasing). When you do that, the font is rendered more cleanly without 
any color artifacts.

Original comment by dr.dave....@gmail.com on 7 Nov 2010 at 2:47