Yeah, three years is way past the statue of limitations for sniping when there are raws waiting. I'd even say 90 days is fair. So thank you!
I noticed you're having trouble with those damn annoying speech bubbles filled with patterns (🙀). If you're using Photoshop or something else that has the feature, I'd suggest using the Paint Bucket Tool (G) with the tolerance set to 200. Up top, looks like this:
Then if you click on a white bit inside the bubble, it'll wipe out everything till it gets to the black outside bits. Of course the tolerance really depends on the quality of your raws. Yours are bit soft, so need to lower it a lot. If I do this with tolerance 64:

I get:

for pretty low effort. The fonts getting lighter wouldn't happen because you add them after.
But honestly you don't have to do that, as long as it's readable that's all that matters!