Blocky-style font rendering

[XGJ]

Not sure if this is a problem with the font or with Designer 2, when I use the following font, the characters don't quite flow into each other. It's very subtle, but it does show up in print. I thought changing the tracking to a negative value would resolve it, and at first it seems to, but the white lines return as soon as I zoom back out.

Here's a link to the font:

https://www.dafont.com/gobold-blocky.font

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @XGJ

The same problem can be seen on the dafont website – see attached image.

The lines can be removed with the Blend Options by either changing the Anti-aliasing to Force Off or making the Coverage Map less steep, but the result will be less smooth (and probably rasterised upon export).

The usual way to remove this sort of thing is to put a coloured shape behind the text but that won’t work in this case as the shape would cover the ‘holes’.

It’s often difficult to remove the ‘gap’ where diagonal lines are next to each other.
Some experimentation and compromise is usually needed.

Maybe someone else has some better ideas.

[GarryP]

If it were me doing this I would probably use a Compound Layer rather than the ‘blocky’ font, see attached video.

[lacerto]

Obsolete.