Font issue on android

Hi guys!

I've been having a smallish issue with fonts on android. Some fonts get these small glitches on the outside of individual fonts, atleast on my nexus 7. The attached image shows it on the 1, i and n. It is not a huge issue, but on a minimal design, it doesn't look great.

Sometimes changing font sizes changes it, but not always. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers!

Yeah, that's a known issue unfortunately. Try removing any effects from your font, or using a bitmap font instead.

I see.. Thanks for the reply.

Nothing I did helped, and then I went for the bitmap font route. It's looking much better now. It was about time I learnt how to use them.

I usually add a SPACE at the beginning and END of my text and it seems to help.

When you say you "went down the bitmap font route" has the issue gone completely or have you just seen an improvement?

I didn't try that, next time..

Bitmap fonts work completely. I just made a png on photoshop with all the fonts I needed and mapped them on stencyl. Fortunately my fonts were monospaced and it was really easy to add new characters. It's a bit more work, but now the fonts don't have those sharp lines, that show especially with higher resolution devices, and they seem to fit in a bit better into the other graphics. And with photoshop you can do little detail stuff like slight drop shadows and strokes. Pretty happy with it!