CAD tip # 11389:

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Readability of annotations, white halo on AutoCAD texts.

How to ensure better readability of AutoCAD texts inside colored areas, similar to that used in GIS and mapping applications?

You can improve text clarity by adding a text mask - colored rectangular background fill on texts (TEXTMASK). If you want to add/highlight only text outlines, you can add a copy of that text to its background, assigning it a larger lineweight and a contrasting color, e.g. white. You can do this automatically with the freeware utility Halo Text.

To make use of this effect, you need to use a text with a text style based on a SHX font and set your display to show geometry lineweights (LWDISPLAY).

You can also automatically add text outlines ("halo") through the LISP utility TextHalo - Download.

BEFORE - AFTER:

masking, outlining, halos, halotext

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