Inconsistent Spacing Between Characters When Scaling Width

I noticed that sometimes there will be extra spacing between characters when setting the scale either via richtext or using the auto-scale WD% option. Here is an example.

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Notice the spacing between the N, I, and M changes depending on the scale. Is there a way to fix this?

Can you post an image of the font asset inspector? This will enable me to see what font and settings you are using.


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I also want to add that even if I use the default Liberation Sans SDF font asset, the result is the same.

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See if you get the same behavior with the tag.

Had a chance to look into this and forgot that the tag was designed to fake Condensed text. So the first question of order would be whether you meant to use the tag to fake Condensed text or did you mean to use the tag which changes the point size of the text?

My intent is to be able to make the text condensed without having to create a condensed version of the font, which doesn’t existed for Cinzel. One reason is to be able to create my own auto-scale method to get more advanced functionality. The other reason is to simply condense text to allow a larger font size to be used but fit the same amount of text on a line. While the current tag is acceptable, it would be ideal to have equal spacing between each character, so I’m not sure if this is a bug or if there is something I could do differently to make it equal.

Edit: The tag exhibits the correct behavior, i.e. the spacing between characters remains equal, but I am indeed going for a condensed style.

Thank you for clarifying that your are indeed using the tag to try to simulate condensed text.

I did take a closer look at the tag which as per your report was not behaving as expected with respect to character spacing. I did make the necessary changes to address the above issue as seen below.

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The top and bottom “Condensed” words do not have any scaling applied to them. The middle two are using the scale tag. The bottom two are also using the tag just for testing these two features together.

This change will be in the next preview release of the TMP package which I expect to release next Friday.

Thank you so much! I look forward to this patch rolling out in future updates.