Colour contrasts?

[ffutures]

The cover of the RPG is going to be a lot of gold coins with dragons on them. I need to make the lettering a good contrasty colour - black sort of works but I'm not convinced it's best. I've used red a lot on previous stuff, any suggestions for an alternative?

Here's what the cover looks like at the moment:




Any suggestions?

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Put a 4pt white stroke around the outside of the letters and it'll look fine.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

White stroke? You mean a border around the letter?