Does Googlebot recognize light characters on a background image?

Paranoid that I might get flagged for hidden text

[Fenceman]

I'm sure that my fears are probably unfounded, but I need to ask just to put my ulcer at ease :)

I have a page with a darkish background image over it. The text, of course, is light--to be seen over the image.

Is Google clever enough to know that my image is dark and not penalize me for trying to cheat?

TIA

[punta]

make sure that the BGCOLOR element in your body tag is set to a dark colour (ideally you want it to be roughly the same colour as your image)

[DerekH]

There are also those that believe that coloring the text using CSS in an external file is also a good way to go, and more future-proof than the FONT COLOR command

CSS also appeals considerably more to the sensibilities of us UK authors, who prefer to put all dubiously spelled words such as "color" into a separate file that's way out of *our* sight as well as Google's <grin>

DerekH