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

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's Word, so I suspect that most things will be a pain to do... not a huge fan of gradients in text, but making those lines smaller does sound like a plan.