Unable to get sharp UI text at large sizes?

Hello,

I am playing around with the new UI system and mostly loving it, having extensively used both EZGUI (ugh!) and NGUI before. One thing NGUI was great at, but that I can't seem to get working properly in the new UI is high-quality font rendering.

I've imported a font (DejaVu) with the following settings:



No matter what settings I use (Font Size in the font import settings, Font Size in the Text component, Pixel Perfect or reference resolution size on the canvas), my text keeps using the same low resolution, producing blurry text at higher screen resolutions (screenshot is 1:1 pixels):



I must be missing something obvious - can anyone point out what I need to do to get nice, sharp text at larger sizes? Thanks!

 

Try switching to a different rendering mode for your font like Hinted Smooth or Hinted Raster. Also for the time being try using DX 11. There is an issue with DX 9 and blurry fonts ATM.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/sharpenning-text.263810/#post-1749310

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