Hi everyone, By using the spacing parameter, I've tried to make some text have bigger gaps between letters but it doesn't give the result that I expected. In the example below when I use spacing greater than 1, the lowercase letters seem to space out okay but the gap after uppercase letters seems a bit too wide, like after the H, U and M (and after i the spacing seems relatively small. From a few tests, it seems that the 'wrong' gaps show up only after certain letters, and they seem to be more noticeable when there is a change of case in a word. I realise that rules for letter spacing are complicated so perhaps those in the know would expect this result, but to me it is unexpected. translate([0,  10]) text("Hoot Unicorn Mouse Sunset", font = "Calisto MT", size = 10, halign = "center", valign = "center", spacing = 2); // test case translate([0, -10]) text("Hoot Unicorn Mouse Sunset", font = "Calisto MT", size = 10, halign = "center", valign = "center", spacing = 1); // normal spacing For my present project, an adequate circumvention involves using normal spacing with space characters added between letters, but I'd still like to know: is the issue a bug, or just a feature of the way these things work? Cheers, Steve

On 3/2/2026 10:44 AM, Steve Lelievre via Discuss wrote: > > By using the spacing parameter, > The answer is unfortunately really simple:  Don't. See issue #3859 <https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3859> for examples and a partial workaround.

If you want a workaround, you can use BOSL2's path_text with a straight path in a dev version that has textmetrics, e.g., include<BOSL2/std.scad> path_text([[0,0],[80,0]], "Example text", size=5, textmetrics=true, kern=2); [image: image.png] On Mon, Mar 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM Jordan Brown via Discuss < discuss@lists.openscad.org> wrote: > On 3/2/2026 10:44 AM, Steve Lelievre via Discuss wrote: > > By using the spacing parameter, > > > The answer is unfortunately really simple: Don't. > > See issue #3859 <https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3859> for > examples and a partial workaround. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > To unsubscribe send an email to discuss-leave@lists.openscad.org

Jordan, Adrian, Thanks for the advice/suggestions. Steve On 2026-03-02 1:22 p.m., Jordan Brown wrote: > On 3/2/2026 10:44 AM, Steve Lelievre via Discuss wrote: >> >> By using the spacing parameter, >> > > The answer is unfortunately really simple:  Don't. > > See issue #3859 <https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/3859> for > examples and a partial workaround. > >