Abstract: The present invention discloses a character display method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a display color value of a character; obtaining a background color value of the character according to a position of the character; obtaining a difference between the display color value and the background color value; obtaining an outline of the character when the difference is smaller than a preset threshold; and displaying the character that has the outline. By adopting the present invention, the character may be clearly displayed in a background without changing a color of the character and a color of the background.