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How to Make Small Text More Readable

When making graphic buttons for web pages, it's often very difficult to make the text both readable and small enough to fit on the button. This is particularly difficult when using light colored text against a dark background. The light text tends to bleed into the background, like this:

Although that text is readable, it's far from being crisp and clear. The best option, of course, is simply to enlarge the text. Sometimes that isn't feasible, though. In those cases, try this: Duplicate the text layer and then merge it down, making the text doubly thick.

The text is much easier to reads this way...

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