Help me decide some defaults for readability

I’m making a live debugging plugin for Godot. Currently the main component is the text overlay which properties and custom messages can be conveniently printed to, every frame, from anywhere.

From A1 to A5, which of these screenshots have the most readable text for you?

  • A1
  • A2
  • A3
  • A4
  • A5
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Same below, from B1 to B5, which are most readable at a quick glance?

  • B1
  • B2
  • B3
  • B4
  • B5
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I feel like A5 is the most readable, with A4 not being too far behind.
In the Bs all of them felt pretty readable, but again B5 and B4 were most readable for me after closer inspection.

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I like 5 the best, though I’m wondering how you’ll handle black text as the gray was still hard for me to read in all of the cases.

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Oh, also: I’m moving this to General since the Help forum is set up to work like StackOverflow where one definitive answer is chosen. Also, you can add a poll to your original post, maybe you’d want to add one of those? The option to add a poll is under the gear icon in the post editor.

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Thanks, I wasn’t sure. And added polls now.

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Unfortunately Discourse compressed the images quite heavily, obscuring some of the relevant detail and messing with contrast. But it’s still a valid test and valuable info.