An AA practice. I'm generally pretty awful with antialiasing, so I figured I'd give it a bit more attention. As you can plainly see, it's just a title. No cool imagery :(
Edit: Alright, I added another color and revised it. It looks a lot smoother now, although it uses 5 colors instead of 4.
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I like the overall design, but if you want my full critique, then do read on.
The palette is, as per your classic style, very soft and muted. Right now your darkest value is (58, 58, 58), your lightest, (224, 224, 224), which means that you're only using about 65% of your possible range. You would do well to darken your darks and lighten your lights and bring that to something more like 80% to increase the contrast.
Overall, your lettering design is very strong. There is some fuzziness in the antialiasing on the upper left side of the A that makes it disagree with some of the other letters. Its tilt works very well when it follows the H, but after the I it seems a bit awkward. Also, the M seems scared of the O in the same way that the final A is afraid of the I. You might want to touch up your lineart for those letters.
Your antialiasing technique is good, and you are obviously very aware of the kind of sub-pixel accuracy that AA requires. At the right side of the M you've gone a bit overboard and things have gotten blurry. You can easily even it up in much the same way that you darkened the horizontal of the A.
I give you a 4 / 5 for execution and a favourite for effort.
I might be asking a bit much, but if you could, would you mind editing the picture to show what areas need improvement (just go over the problem areas in red or something)
Nevermind that. Just leave a comment on the revision.
it looks fairly jaggy in some areas(top of the ribbon..thing, the A's have some spots, the N's have some spots...and well...alot of it is jaggy) but i like the way its written, and if it were to be less jaggy it would look great.
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