UI Text Unreadable

Unity Engine
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Hi. first thread, sorry if this is stupid, but I can’t figure this out on my own.

I’m following this tutorial for an inventory system:

The problem is my text just looks like ass:

Settings here:

The middle text line, which should just say “” is increased to a high width and height and font size 160 and scaled down as I read that as a possible solution. It looks worse.

All fonts are Arial, so I can’t change the Rendering Mode - though I did some tests with other fonts and the “Hinted Raster” that was recommended elsewhere made it look worse. (From a thread specifically about pixel fonts, so maybe it just works for that style)

Pixel perfect is checked on the canvas.

Any recommendations would be appreciated - I’m having a huge amount of trouble sorting through font settings because I keep digging up stuff that seems to only apply to old versions.

Thanks.

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Is your RectTransform scaled at all?

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Yeah, with unity UI, never scale, use the rect tool.

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Except world space canvases. They have to be scaled evenly to get sensible results.

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I was about to reply that I hadn’t scaled any of the elements, but I double checked and I’d actually scaled one of the containing panes. Thanks all.