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Blurry text when placed over certain colors

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
February 23, 2022
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I'm laying out a children's book in InDesign. Ive imported the pages of my book from Illustrator by dropping them into Indesign. I've then done the text for the book in Indesign. Is this the best way to do it? For some reason my text looks sharp when it's over white but when it's over red it looks pixelated. Pretty strange. Is this just a problem on my screen or will this show up when printed?

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rob day

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Hi @jonl17076061 , is the black text set to Overprint? The display of CMYK Black could vary a bit depending on whether the fill is set to Overprint or not, and the document’s CMYK profile’s soft proof. Here you can see the Black text that I have knocked out has a subtle fringe which could look like a blur when the text is zoomed out.

In any case you want to make sure your black text is set to Overprint, so there isn’t a registration problem on press.

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

Check and see if your type is set to crisp, on the top bar.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

Derek Cross

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That's for Photoshop, this is InDesign.

Jumpenjax

Community Expert

Yes that is correct photoshop, my bad. Did you try to convert the Type into outline? Be sure to duplicate the layer first, for backup.

Lee- Graphic Designer, Print Specialist, Photographer

Mike Witherell

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"Dropped into InDesign"? I hope you mean "File > Place"; not drag n drop.

Make sure all color models are the same; preferably RGB. InDesign has a color model, too, under Edit > Transparency Blend Space

Mike Witherell

Peter Spier

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While transparency and color management policies and blend spaces, along with Place vs drag-and-drop might affect color, I don't believe they should have any effect on the crispness of type.

Peter Spier

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I suspect this is just a display issue in InDesign. How does it look in an exported PDF?

jonl17076061Author

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It looks blurry when I export it as well

Peter Spier

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Are you able to share a sample file for examination?

Derek Cross

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Presumably you Placed the image as a native AI file in InDesign and then added the text.

How are you viewing the document View > Display Performance > High Quality Display is recommended.

(You have the first word bolder, is that what you want?)

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