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

[ckd]

Either use heliograph's suggestion of a white stroke, or have the background fainter (translucency may be the answer here, or adjusting levels so that they run from 50%-100% brightness instead of 0-100%).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Adjusting the brightness would be easier with the elderly software I'm using - I'll give it a try.