TextMesh Pro World canvas and bad font rendering

I have a world canvas with some text in it and the results are really messy, any idea how to improve?



That's with the following settings:


I find disabling kerning and adding extra padding helps slightly:


I'm using TMP 2.1.6 from the package manager and the liberation font with the following settings:


The debug pane for the text shows it all normal, scale = 1, sharpness = 0, etc. There's nothing special with the canvas but it is scaled quite small. It's 1024x768 scaled to .00042 -- perhaps that's the problem?


Adding a canvas scaler and tweaking the dynamic pixels doesn't do anything.

Any pointers appreciated!

Here are all the images in one place: https://imgur.com/a/fWLTeyP

 

Fixed the issue by increasing the size of my world canvas (and corresponding geometry around it). Original scale was .00042 new scale is 0.002.