Broken Font in Palud scene

[dobios]

Problem

Font looks weird and half-displayed in many cases on the screen.

Reason

After extensive research, I've found that this is due to font downscaling causing sub-pixel alignments, meaning that there aren't enough pixels to show font detail at that small a size. There isn't really any solution to this, due to a lack of physical pixels on the screen.

A potential way to circumvent the problem, is to either:

1. Make the font bigger.
2. Make the font thicker
3. Use anti-aliasing or some form of linear-interpolation between pixels (causes a considerable amount of blur when the sub-pixel problem arises).

I have opted for a blend of all three of these solutions.

References

• Godot Github Issue on the topic
• Godot Q&A on best managing themes
• More technical stack overflow post on bad text in game engines due to rasterization
• Even more technical textbook like website on rendering fonts in real-time applications

[astonedf]

To try with the bold font in assets/05_fonts/PixelOperator-Bold.ttf