[Solved] How can I increase the font size of a text node? (without blurring)

Hi all. I’ve created a text node within a GUI object, but the text is much smaller than I want it to be. There’s no editor option to increase the font size. Manually scaling the node’s size in the editor works, but the text becomes very very blurry. How can I either a) increase the font size, or b) remove the blurring after scaling up?

edit: Answer from britzl 2/2/2026 - Use a distance field font (bitmap is the default). Open the font file in the defold editor (double-click it in the Outline), then under Properties set the output format to ‘Distance Field’ and the material to something that can handle distance field data, like ‘/builtins/fonts/font-df.material‘. The text node can then be scaled up or down without getting overly blurry.

You should use a distance field font instead of a bitmap font. Distance field fonts can be resized without much loss of quality.

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