Sharp solid white type against black backgorund ...

I'm very new to PSE and also creating web pages. I'm building a web page with Build Your Site. I'm creating a file in PSE to put in the web site. It will have a black background and the type will be white. When I place it in the web page the type does not come out solid or sharp so it hard to read. How can I create sharp, crisp type against a black background in PSE? Thanks.

Thank you, and yes, I've been doing that and selecting a script font which is the one I want to use: Montez. It is a sufficiently thick font yet, as you can see (hopefully in this screen shot), the white is not solidly white. Is there a way of making the type more solidly white? Or some other way to make this font more readable in white against black?

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