Pixel Perfect 1px font outline
 

So I'm wondering how I could achieve a pixel perfect outline on font strings.

An exmaple are these unitframes:



On the left side i'm using a shadow with 1, -1 offset. On the right side (target) I'm just using "THINOUTLINE" sadly THINOUTLINE looks really mushy and not as crisp as I want it to be. Without the outline it looks clean so I don't think font scaling is an issue. How can I achieve a clean 1 px black outline on my font?

The shadow is nice but its after all still a shadow and not an outline, which means only one side is covered here.

Try disabling all font shadows (:SetShadowOffset(0,0)) and use the 'MONOCHROMEOUTLINE' font flag.

Thanks that's what i was looking for

Looks pretty bad sadly. Guess the Font I'm using is not optimized for it.

Looks like your font size is too big :)

Maybe yeah but smaller doesn't really look better and bigger wouldn't fit.

Keep in mind, the MONOCHROME flag only works well with actual pixel fonts.

uhh okay? Could you give me some examples? What are ACTUAL pixel fonts?
This is the one I'm using https://www.dafont.com/squarefont.font

it's a really nice font and works almost everywhere but the outline looks shitty as you can see.

That's not a pixel font. If you want examples just look at the font on many older 8-bit or 16-bit games.

Look for something in this "Pixel/Bitmap" category on dafont
https://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php

Don't forget this classic:

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/a...archive-2.html

I can't figure out how to post screenshots.