Bleeding characters

Using one of my fonts I created lettering that has the middle of each character knocked out so that only the outline shows. The trouble is when I create the jpg for the web the color seems to become runny so it looks like its slightly smudged.

Any ideas what I did wrong?

For text, jpg's dont do justice, unless you save it at a real high resolution. Gif's are the best for text and anything that you wouldnt call a picture.

I used a gif set the parms to web/nodither/matting white and it diesn't bleed like it did before. Thanks

I usually zoom in a bit and then if you watch the settings you can see when the colors max out in a gif, find out where that is and take a little out until you see some degration of the image. Then bring it back up a bit. That will keep some of the file sizes down without making your images look bad.

alternate between dither and non dither and see if it makes a difference. If not, then leave it off.

I never use it myself, but in photoshop you can use a channel to set variable compression/image-quality in a jpeg.

I think you use white for the parts you want high-quality and black for the less important bits, you might want to try it out.