I would like to be able to recreate this out of focus look on text. The attached example is of two different fonts that just look like this by default. I want to do the same type of effect to any other font.

I use Inkscape and GIMP.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

that sir, would be E.Z.

you type your text. rasterize the text. make a selection of the text. go to the menu, click selection-modify-contract (i think thats the menu selection). then invert the selection by pressing ctrl+shift+i. press delete on your keyboard. and your done!

Is that for Inkscape or GIMP? I'm not seeing any of those commands in either...

ooh, sorry... i don't know how i missed that line of text in your post..
those were actually directions for photoshop

Ah, in that case, does anyone here know the equivalent GIMP commands?

And thank you anyway, u.dog.