Bug Editor font looks blurry, misaligned and ugly in 2023.1 on Windows 10 in light mode

Why is there "Editor Text Sharpness" slider that we're supposed to try and manually tweak now? No value makes it look good, and text in different places of the editor are affected differently by it so it's not possible to fix this by tweaking this slider anyway. A lot of the ugly new changes seem unrelated to text sharpness anyway. Like line heights are different, character widths (kerning?) are different, some characters are actually lumpy with uneven thickness.

Just compare Unity 2022 or earlier with Unity 2023. It looks like crap. Why was this changed? How is it possible to release this?

 

It’s called: obligatory yearly releases even though nothing is ready(tm).

 

Oh god, there's reason why pixel perfect font rendering is used for most cases.
Aligning characters on subpixel offsets just looks like S***. No amount of "text sharpness" is going to fix that.

This is not iPhone with 460 Pixels per inch. These are PC displays with ~100 PPI and small text - to fit a lot of data on the screen.

For the love of god, bring back the original text rendering please. Or at least add a switch.
I don't understand why we have to deal with such bullshit.

It's clearly visible how horrible it looks when you compare Unity rendered text with text in the main menu (File, Edit, Assets, etc...). Most windows apps use pixel-perfect text rendering, why this has to be different?

Btw, how this got through QA?

 

I actually reverted back to 2022 due to this. There was no way to fix this in my end and I thought it looked so bad it reduced my enjoyment from using the editor by a lot.

I could show screenshots and create bug reports for this, but I'm hoping someone else feels more like spending their own time being a tester for Unity than I do at the moment. I assume there are more people than just me who uses Unity on Windows with light mode. You'd think that was something they tested internally as well before doing releases. And I'm only limiting my report to that particular combination because I didn't test this with any other combinations of appearance and operating system. For all I know it could be broken in all of them.

 

Yep, me too, just reverted back to 2022.
Unusable, can't look at blurry or oversharpen texts whole day.

It's unlikely this is just light skin issue. I think it might be smaller issue on Mac, which has higher pixel density (up to 220 for professional displays).

 

Anyway, here's bug report:
https://unity3d.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/2/IN-47021

 

My report got dismissed pretty quickly with advices from bag "have you tried restarting you computer".
I'm pretty pissed wasting my time like this, won't be reporting more issues any time soon.

 

Yep.

 

Thank you, glad to see it's acknowledged by Unity and work is being done to address that.

 

Don’t the development teams test their releases on full HD monitors? This blurry editor text is awful. For a professional software product like Unity the blurry mess of the editor text is completely unacceptable. Unity editor UI appearance has never been great, but in previous version’s it’s been acceptable. In 2023 it’s completely unacceptable. I develop Unity courses and I can’t record the editor for tutorials while it’s in this state. This is a major issue and requires addressing immediately… not put to the bottom of the bug fix pile. Can you tell me and the other many Unity developers when this will be fixed??

 

Any update on this? At lease give us an issue ID so we can track it's progress.

 

Yeah they too busy with fees and whatnot , meantime the editor font look horrid. .. Someone buy this company before it shatters completely.

 

Link to issue tracker:

https://issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/blurry-text