Hi,
Currently there is an option for line spacing for Text element. Which is pretty good and handy but I also need to have a letter spacing like Photoshop has. In one of the font(open-sans-regular) I was using the letters are too tightly rendered. A little bit of letter spacing could really help in here. Is this currently possible with the uGUI?
a bitmap font or a .fontsettings file has a setting called character spacing and another called character padding
Ah, that’s interesting.
Thanks 
Hi,
I didn’t know what is a bitmap font before, and now that I do. I don’t think I wan’t to use it since I would want to style the same font with html markup in the TEXT component. Is there any reason, why my font’s letter spacing just looks so tight that it does outside of unity?
If you are after much better control over your text like character, line and paragraph spacing, kerning, etc, I suggest you take a look at Text Mesh Pro.
In the latest beta, there is even a rich text tag to control character spacing in the text as you can see from this image from his thread.
In his next beta, he is also adding a tag to control text alignment in the text itself. Here is a link to that. Anyway, Text Mesh Pro does a lot more than that like giving you the ability to dynamically add a stroke, shadow, bevel and a bunch of other stuff to your text instead of having to modify the font bitmap in Photoshop.
Yes, I looked into it already. This seems really amazing. But I only needed the letter spacing feature. If unity doesn’t have it by default, I guess this is my only option left