Altered font rendering to allow black. Still see bleeding effects. Might need to do per-pixel alpha values.

Package/Environment/Common/Layouts/Default 16x9/Layout.xml

@@ -1,15 +1,12 @@
-<layout width="1920" height="1080" font="Lato-Black.ttf" fontColor="ecf0f1">
+<layout width="1920" height="1080" font="Roboto-Bold.ttf" fontColor="c0842b">
    <sound type="load" src="load.wav" /> 
    <sound type="unload" src="unload.wav" />
    <sound type="highlight" src="highlight.wav" />
    <sound type="select" src="select.wav" />
 
    <!-- background -->
-   <container backgroundColor="000000" backgroundAlpha="FF" x="0" y="0" height="stretch" width="stretch" layer="0" alpha="0.3" />
+   <container backgroundColor="C0392B" backgroundAlpha="1.0" x="0" y="0" height="stretch" width="stretch" layer="0"/>
    
-   <!-- border for menu  -->
-   <container backgroundColor="c0392b" backgroundAlpha="99" x="center" y="0" height="stretch" width="center" layer="1" alpha="0.3" />   
-
    <menu orientation="horizontal" algorithm="easeincircular" xOffset="500" y="0" width="center" height="stretch" speed="0.05" acceleration="0.05" layer="3">
     <itemDefaults spacing="10" x="center" height="30" font-size="30" alpha="0.5" xOffset="20" yOrigin="center" />
     <item index="start" height="0" spacing="0" alpha="0"/>

Package/Environment/Common/Layouts/Default 16x9/Splash.xml

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-<layout width="1920" height="1080" font="Age.otf" fontColor="ecf0f1">
-   
-   <!-- border for menu  -->
-   <container backgroundColor="c0392b" backgroundAlpha="99" x="0" y="0" height="stretch" width="stretch" layer="0" alpha="0.3" />   
-   
-   <!-- logo -->
-   <image x="center" y="center" height="150" xOrigin="center" yOrigin="center" src="logo.png" layer="1" alpha="1">
-      <onEnter>
-         <set duration=".5">
-            <animate type="alpha" from="0" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
-         </set>
-      </onEnter>
-      <onIdle>
-         <set duration=".5">
-            <animate type="alpha" from="1" to=".5" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
-         </set>
-         <set duration=".5">
-            <animate type="alpha" from=".5" to="1" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
-         </set>
-      </onIdle>
-     <onExit>
-         <set duration=".5">
-            <animate type="alpha" from="1" to="0" algorithm="easeinquadratic"/>
-         </set>
-      </onExit>
-   </image>
- </layout>
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