[0.17.36] Factorio renders fonts with sharp corners incorrectly

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Factorio fails to render fonts correctly when using game.rendering API to render some text with a custom font:

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All of these round-ish things seen in the screenshot should be rectangles. I'm attaching sample font that exhibits issue. I've observed this problem with several different fonts.

[Bilka]

Please provide a full font prototype definition, and a command to render the font so that we know the scale etc.

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info.json to add new font to the locale:

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{
  "language-name": "English",
  "font": {
    "tux-display":
    [
      "__TuxControls__/fonts/TuxDisplay.ttf" 
    ]
  }
}

The prototype:

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data:extend{
  {
    type = "font",
    name = "tux-display",
    from = "tux-display",
    size = 100,
  },
}

The function used to create 5 strings on top of a given entity:

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function create_chars(entity)
  local num_chars = 5
  local step_x = (100 + 1) * 0.5 / 32
  local origin_x = 0 - (num_chars - 1) * (step_x / 2)

  for i = 1, num_chars do
    local delta_x = origin_x + (i - 1) * step_x

    local char = rendering.draw_text{
      text = "U\x7FC\x7FU",
      surface = entity.surface,
      target = entity,
      target_offset = {delta_x, -4/32},
      color = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0},
      scale = 0.5,
      font = "tux-display",
      alignment = "center",
      scale_with_zoom = false,
    }
  end
end

I've tried different size/scale combos to see if that somehow increases "the internal resolution" of a font, but that seems to have no effect.

[posila]

Thanks for the report. The game uses SDF (signed distance field) for rendering fonts, so it doesn't need to raster glyphs for different scales all the time. This could be probably fixed by using MSDF (multichannel signed distance field), but at the moment we don't plan to implement that.

[tux_mark_5]

That's what I was afraid of (signed distance fields for font rendering); I've dabbled with font rendering myself a bit before.

Would it be possible to add an additional parameter to the font prototype as a workaround to control internal resolution of the distance field for a specific font?