This is only marginally programming related - has much more to do w/ colors and their representation.

I am working on a very low level app. I have an array of bytes in memory. Those are characters. They were rendered with anti-aliasing: they have values from 0 to 255, 0 being fully transparent and 255 totally opaque (alpha, if you wish).

I am having trouble conceiving an algorithm for the rendering of this font. I'm doing the following for each pixel:

            // intensity is the weight I talked about: 0 to 255
            intensity = glyphs[text[i]][x + GLYPH_WIDTH*y];
            if (intensity == 255)
                continue; // Don't draw it, fully transparent
            else if (intensity == 0) 
                setPixel(x + xi, y + yi, color, base); // Fully opaque, can draw original color
            else { // Here's the tricky part
                // Get the pixel in the destination for averaging purposes
                pixel = getPixel(x + xi, y + yi, base);
                // transfer is an int for calculations
                transfer = (int)  ((float)((float) (255.0 - (float) intensity/255.0) * (float) color.red + (float) pixel.red)/2); // This is my attempt at averaging
                newPixel.red = (Byte) transfer;
                transfer = (int)  ((float)((float) (255.0 - (float) intensity/255.0) * (float) color.green + (float) pixel.green)/2);
                newPixel.green = (Byte) transfer;
                // transfer = (int) ((float) ((float) 255.0 - (float) intensity)/255.0 * (((float) color.blue) + (float) pixel.blue)/2);
                transfer = (int)  ((float)((float) (255.0 - (float) intensity/255.0) * (float) color.blue + (float) pixel.blue)/2);
                newPixel.blue = (Byte) transfer;
                // Set the newpixel in the desired mem. position
                setPixel(x+xi, y+yi, newPixel, base);
            }

The results, as you can see, are less than desirable. That is a very zoomed in image, at 1:1 scale it looks like the text has a green "aura".

Any idea for how to properly compute this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for your time!