Why aren't these words identical?

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April 27, 2024
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Attached are screenshots of two lines of text.

The top line is from the first .psd file I made. The second is from another .psd file. The text in the second file looks bolder. I dragged it into the first file so I could compare them.

The BOTH have the following identical characteristics:

Font: Georgia Italic
Size: 240px
Effects: Sharp and Bold
Color: #FFFFFF
LIne Height: Auto
Kerning: Metrics
Tracking: 0
Vertical: 100%
Horizontal: 100%
Baseline Shift: 0px

So why does one look bolder? I like the folder one, and don't know how to get it!

Photoshop 24.7.0
Mac OS Ventura 13.6.6 (I can't update this; my hardware is too old.)

macOS

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jane-e

Community Expert

So why does one look bolder? I like the folder one, and don't know how to get it!
By @Angelique & Friends

Another possibility is that one is set to fake bold (faux bold).

Select the text with the Type tool
Open the Character panel (Window menu)
Look at the icons across the bottom of the Character panel. Is Faux Bold enabled?

Jane

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

The bottom line has a white stroke.

A

Angelique & FriendsAuthor

Inspiring

But it doesn't! (I guess it's a way to get it, but there are no text effects on either of them.)

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

What I did above is place the lower text over the upper text, and set the blend mode to difference. If they had been identical then the reselt would have been fully black. In fact the lower text exactly matches the upper in every respect, other than it is about one pixel fatter all round.

Let's test that. This a copy of the upper text set to difference which is obviously full black.

I've used Remove Background, which is not perfect, but close enough to show us what is going on

If we give that a one pixel stroke, we get the something like the effect as the first screenshot. All it really demonstrates is that the lower text is a tiny bit fatter than the upper text.

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