Is there any way that you can turn off the “thin white border” that outlines all point labels in the graphing calculator? It would be great to sometimes have the text appear without that. Thanks for any help!
I didn’t see the label part of the question, I thought you were talking about the transparent border on draggable points, don’t know how to remove the label thing though.
I’m wondering if this has something to do with the size of the text that is used in the graph. The larger you set your text size to overall in the graph, the less of an impact the “little white border” has on the legibility of your text.
Scaling text in Desmos is pretty annoying (in my opinion) because it doesn’t always scale how I think it would. I have read a few discussion boards on this problem… but I don’t know if I’ve come across anything that explains what I’ve seen Desmos doing with their Activity Text…
Here is what I am trying to figure out. Desmos seems to be able to get text that is “clearer” than what a point label usually outputs; even with variable inputs from the user, the text doesn’t have the “little white border.”
If I try to do anything similar, it doesn’t seem to be the same?
Small text isn’t legible because the proportions of each character are goofed up by the border…
But bigger text is closer to what I want because the border matters less? It just doesn’t scale very well!
Thanks for trying to help Colin, I appreciate it. Hope everyone has a great Friday 
-Phil Johnson
Could you share an Activity when you’re having issues?
It probably is exactly what you’re describing - that you need to take into account the viewport when scaling text: essentially responsive text sizing. But it’s hard to know without what you’re working with
Sorry team! Just getting some summer free time to putz around on a few things from the school year!
Here’s a link to an activity where I have found the difference in text. You can clearly see the two examples of what I have been able to create vs. what the wizards at Desmos have somehow cooked up. I want my text to look like theirs!
https://teacher.desmos.com/activitybuilder/custom/647feb23ef87d13c98f2e6e3
I’ve tried resizing, recoloring, copying all of their point and label traits, digging through the graph settings and the CL Documentation… I’ve even looked into the API for Desmos (although I am not as experienced on that side of things TBH)…
Any help will be appreciated!!! Thanks everyone 
It may just be one of the features that’s not publicly available that has leaked out through other activities.
You can accomplish this by opening DevTools and entering the following in the javascript console:
Calc.updateSettings({advancedStyling: true})
This allows you to remove outlines and do some other things, like show/hide on hover/not:hover
Here you go: No Outline
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You can do this if you download the chrome Desmodder plug in too. That’s also a way to get editable point labels. I’ve been using this over the summer and it has solved a lot of my formatting gripes!
How do you get dev tools
Control I on your keyboard.
Easier though is just to use a query to enable Advanced Styling features: