No, I haven't yet. But when I made it, on my screen, Ryan faded out smoothly into the black background and didn't look all halo-y and blurry.(And really, the lower part of him looks like it was scribbled out with a black crayon...)

On the icon, it's not really the contrast that is a problem so much as the huge smudge of pure black above the writing which looked exactly the same as the dark gray around it when I made the icon. :/