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I think that it's a semi transparent view, but it's a special view in which the drawrect is overridden to color each pixel of the letters with the same color (but stronger to make it visible) of the pixel in the view beneath it. Imagine this like the magnifying view. it displays a magnified version of the the view beneath it.