How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry

[MarthKoopa]

Tried all kinds of different fonts, font sizes, locations, and even versions up to 2.1... but font never looks good.

Is there something I'm missing?

[Laurent]

Can you show your code, as well as a screenshot of the blurry text?

[cpolymeris]

Tried all kinds of different fonts, font sizes, locations, and even versions up to 2.1... but font never looks good.

Is there something I'm missing?

It happened to me when I started using SFML: I tried using a [-1, 1] view, and loading e.g. 0.5 size fonts. Make sure to load large fonts (30 "pt" at least) and scale them down if necessary. That's because fonts are textures, not vector-based.

[Laurent]

Ok, it seems to be related to issue #228.

[zsbzsb]

Have been trying this but it's not making them much better.  Still not displaying clearly.

Be sure when you scale down that your texture has smoothing set to true.

[Jebbs]

I'm not seeing an option for setting a smooth option on text or fonts?

You apply it to the texture instance your text is using, not to the font or text themselves.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Texture.php#a0c3bd6825b9a99714f10d44179d74324

[Laurent]

Forget about the smooth option, it is not applicable to fonts/texts.

All you have to know is in #228.