Unequal Character Tracking on Circular Paths

Upon closer inspection, I notice the cursor for the first letter is not vertical at 90° (you can usually move them and they snap to the path vertexes). So the first letter you type is slightly slanted; thus any font, spacing, setting etc will have innacurate position. You can see on the screenshot, the cursor is slanted between the 2 green parallel lines, it should be straight 90°.

Thanks for the reply. Definitely agree about the variability of results - here's an example at higher resolution, with 0-kerning and sharp antialiasing. The characters are wildly off here, despite all being set to use -100 tracking!

Hi,

I also noticed this issue, with any font I tried. Depending on your font aliasing method, and image size, results greatly vary. Also the baseline is not very accurate, the left 0 is above the circle but the right 0 is a bit lower (over the circle).

The best setting I found to mitigate this issue is to use a "kerning=0" instead of  "optical" or "metric" and a sharp aliasing (see screenshot).

It could just be an interpolation issue on the pixel grid on low res images, and only a very large image can interpolate fonts better, thanks to a denser pixel grid.

Hope it helps.

Regards,