Search with Design

I wanted to build a navigation piece in flash 8 using both icons and text. I decided to use Flash for several reasons. The navigation could slide left and right, meaning I could have a list of nav options that was wider than the screen, and I could creating interaction that was more engaging than just the up, hover, and current state of most buttons.

However, I wasn’t willing to lose the crisp, clean text. And Flash was presenting my navigation like this:

All I needed to do was correct the y value for the text object to a rounded number, not one with a decimal.

And just like that, viola! Perfectly crisp flash text. No more blurry text.