Saturated/blurred base set 2 holos?

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I’ve had this poliwrath since my childhood and it always caught my eye because of how much deeper and darker the colors are on it plus the thicker blurred text. I also have a clefable that is the same. Now I’m not one to find a tiny difference and claim its some rare error version of a card like on reddit, but the difference is like between base unlimited and shadowless. Haven’t been able to find anything about it online and was curious if this is a known thing for base 2 or was it just a really weird odd 1 off print run? (Included the gyarados for comparison)

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I’ve also got a base set 2 clefable like the poliwrath above.

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Interesting. I wonder if its specific holos or all of them. I’ll post a pic of my clefable later

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I’ve seen this effect to a varying degree in just about every early set, both Japanese and English.

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I’ve only seen it in my base 2 cards so I wasnt sure if it was a set specific thing or not. Can you post pictures of any English examples from other sets?