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DRAFT - Text Bubbles for Girlcock College
🕑 Added 2023-01-30 02:54:51 +0000 UTCI got a lot of feedback from y'all and others that caused me to draft up some options for the speech bubbles. I realized I needed to test dark environments too. I want the different girls to have a color associated with them. Adding that color to the text doesn't seem to make it as readable on a white background, but it kinda works on dark. Also, stark white bubbles sitting on top of renders, which are more like photos than illustrations, doesn't look especially good to me.
Making the bubbles an off-white color that'll be different for each girl seems like it would be more readable in more situations than any other method I've tried. Here's a side by side of the top three options I've tried. The bottom one is what I did for the initial Karvonen getting off both ways comic for comparison to the top two which I think work quite well.
People also mentioned that the dark text bubble suggests a god or some sort of magical/otherworldly character. At least four out of the ten people (I have a lot of beta readers/testers) I asked directly about this aspect of the dark text bubbles. I realized this fits right in with something I had planned, so I think I should reserve the dark text bubbles for those sorts of characters/beings.
Here's a comparison of the text bubble styles on two very different backgrounds. The dark one includes a preview of a scene I'm working on. ^_^
