[AD] Bad quality text with Lighten blend

[rubs]

Hi all,

 

I was trying to find some way to colorize parts of a text without changing its properties (I need that frequently for UI design). I found out that using another object with the Lighten blend mode seems to do what I want, but text is rendered quite poorly. Thyer is a rectangle with a Lighten blend over the text as a mask, but AD creates lots of intermediate colors which I don't want. The rightmost result is what I want. I've included the .afdesign file too.

 

Is this the expected behavior? If yes, is there another way to accomplish this other than changing the text color itself?

Lighten mask bug.afdesign

[Chris_K]

hi Rubs

 

This is due to the position on the mask in the layers panel. As it is above the text it is having to blend with the anti-aliasing of the text. So the text gets rasterised and then the layer above is blended. If you move the rectangle so it is nested in the text layer you will get something a lot closer to the expected result as it will rasterise the text and the blend in one go instead of one by one

 

Cheers

[rubs]

Great solution, works perfectly. So could you please move this thread to the Questions forum?

 

Thanks a lot.

[rubs]

Hmmm... maybe I spoke too soon. In the example attached, I want to highlight just one line of the table / grid. I used the technique you advised in the rightmost table, but the black text rendering is not good. Any solutions?

Blend.afdesign

[rubs]

I found the solution myself: Flattening the coverage map for the underlying text achieves the desired effect. Here are my tests and the .afdesign file for the curious:

 

Blend2.afdesign