Adding Strokes in Essential Graphics

[nickflix]

Hello! I'm adding some info to a promo I'm doing and since Legacy Title is retiring I'm using Essential Graphics. As you can see, it's nothing special. Just a little text with some borders, but the top still is a preset Text in Baba Neue Font. As you can see, it's legible, but doesn't really stand out. In the past, I've just added a couple of Outer Strokes to text that needs to pop against a background and it's been great. Here, every time I add a stroke, it makes the font brighter and less legible. 

The Still at the bottom is a Legacy Title using the same font and I just added a few Outer Strokes. How can I recreate this in Essential Graphics, especially now that Legacy Title's days are numbered? Thanks. 

[R Neil Haugen]

That's very odd. I can check with my scopes here, and adding a stroke or multiple strokes does nothing to the brightness of the letter itself. I just get a stroke added.

Huh. Wonder why not on your rig?

Neil

[nickflix]

Hi. Sorry for the late reply. I didn't get a notification that I'd gotten an answer. I was having an issue with that audio bug which mutes tracks, so I downgraded to one update before the latest one, but I don't think that would be the cause, but yeah. It's very strange. It literally looks like the letters get brighter and fuzzier the more strokes I add to it. The second photo is just a few clicks and boom, it's way more distinctive and solid. If there are any tricks to get around this, I'd be more than happy to try them. Thanks very much. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Just so puzzling, and frankly I've got no clue here on this one. You seem to have done a number of the standard things.

Neil