[Red Steel]

Polarik writing about "FactCheck's" COLB : I did not talk about "strange halos" around the letters, but well-known and well-defined white and gray pixel halos BETWEEN the letters,

Basically everything inside the borders were far superior in quality to the borders themselves. Proof-positive that they were added post-hoc to a forged image.

So finding "well-known and well-defined white and gray pixel halos BETWEEN the letters" is a tell-tale sign of forgery? Correct?

[Polarik]

So finding "well-known and well-defined white and gray pixel halos BETWEEN the letters" is a tell-tale sign of forgery? Correct?

150% correct. They are well-known and well-defined at the pixel level to me, and if you made a million scans of a real 2007 COLB, you would never find them.