As of a few days ago, there has been some change to the font Montserrat, resulting in the glyphs being closer together. The UI using this font hasn’t been touched in several months.
This issue affects every UI using this font.
OLD (Good spacing)
NEW (Bad spacing)
Its quite hard to notice, try focusing on the space between the a & n in “can”.
Expected behavior
Font spacing should return to how it was previously.
I noticed that how text fonts render overall are different. It was a jarring change to see.
Here’s an example from one of my older games using the arcade font:
Current appearance:
Previous:
Sure, this makes it look more pixel perfect, but it is something to note
Hi, thanks for the report! Could you share a bit more about device that you encounter those issues, specifically:
Also could you share a small repro file that just contains the instance that is relevant so that we can also check internally?
Thanks.
Hi there,
The 731 release last week included an update to FreeType, a text rendering library we use. Unfortunately, there are some subtle pixel differences between how the old and new versions render text.
The changes are mixed. The text is slightly less blurry, but the kerning is slightly worse.
This update is needed for other reasons, so likely won’t be rolled back. In the future, we’re hoping to ship a feature that will improve kerning, but I can’t give a timeline on when this will happen. For now, I’ll close this as won’t fix.
Thanks for reporting the issue!
This change kinda has ruined the look of thin text in some cases.
Unfortunate to hear this can’t be fixed. It’s possible you could contact the owners of FreeType however
