Infamous blurry text problem CONFIRMED as bug, not limitation.

Every single response to this question on the internet (which get asked a HELL of a lot, because it is a seriously common problem) says "buy a $60 asset to fix it" or "scale your text down, and increase the font size!" (which is extremely inefficient) and say things like "It's a limitation of Unity's text system" but I just proved that is false. It's a bug. Why? Because under SOME conditions, the text DOES scale correctly!

I noticed that my pause menu was extremely blurry but the text on my on-screen HUD was fine. After testing every individual thing about the canvas scaler and the text for about an hour, I basically confirmed it had nothing to do with the settings of either of those. Then I realized the main difference between the HUD and pause menu is that the HUD is not disabled when the game starts.

So as a test, I moved the code that disables my pause menu and other UI to a coroutine function and ran it a fraction of a second after the game starts. Now everything scales correctly, even if you disable and reenable the canvases to hide/show the menus.

The best part is, if you set the time to wait before the coroutine runs to 0, it will SOMETIMES be blurry and SOMETIMES be crisp, entirely at random. If you do at the very start (in an objects start() function) it will always be blurry.

I honestly can not believe that this bug has been in for so long (since the new UI was introduced!) but now that I've confirmed it's a bug, I hope to see it fixed. I apologize if it has already been fixed, I couldn't find it in the patch notes.

 

If you think it is a bug, please file a bug report.

 

I filed a bug report right after typing this topic, but I made the topic because many people who know about this problem seem to think it's an engine limitation and not a bug. It can't be an engine limitation if the text DOES scale correctly under certain conditions, with no settings changed.

 

I sent a bug report without my project because I felt like that might make things too complicated, I now realize that might have been a bad idea and have submitted a new bug report with my project and am waiting on the email back.

Edit: Case 780705, is that what you wanted?

 

There is a Solution , increase your font size to 1024 (HD) or higher and work with the Character size to bring your text size Down.

 

Just want to say that Unity doesn't use the set size 25 on this for sure. It looks more like size 8:

 

I believe that Unity doesn't take into account the dynamicPixelsPerUnit value when Canvas is disabled. I resolved this issue by setting the aforementioned value higher than 1 whenever the Canvas gets enabled. I'm also waiting for a fix on this!

 

What worked for me is not only setting the Canvas.enabled=true, but also turning the CanvasScaler.enabled=true.
design the panel and then disable the canvas and canvasscaler. When u want to show it you turn both on and the text is crisp., when you close the panel, disable both.

Pattern is -
OpenPanel()
myCanvas.enabled=true
myCanvaScaler.enabled=true

ClosePanel
myCanvaScaler.enabled=false
myCanvas.enabled=false