Insert Text font size is inaccurate

Bug Reports
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I found that using the Insert Text tool, the font size of 12 on MS Paint and the font size of 16 on Aseprite look the same.

I checked the font’s file, and it seems that the correct font size is indeed 12, but in order for me to get the text to look like it, I need to set the size to 16 on Aseprite. This isn’t a problem on MS Paint, which gives me the correct text at size 12 as you’d expect. I’ve included a video demonstrating, sorry it’s kinda scuffed xd

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I’m using Aseprite v1.3.6 from Steam on Windows 10

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Hi there @alliumpxl! Actually I’m testing on Affinity Photo and it looks like the font must be 16pt to look pixel perfect:

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I have found the font here: Index of /PC98/font not sure if it’s the same TTF. There are some future changes in the text rendering ( Using Skia for font rendering · Issue #4362 · aseprite/aseprite · GitHub ) but the size still is 16pt to be rendered correctly in this case.

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Thanks for the reply! That’s where I got the font from too. Sorry, I should’ve provided a link. What I find strange is that when you open the ttf file you can see the characters next to 12 and they’re all scaled correctly. That was what originally led me to believe that MS Paint was right and Aseprite was wrong

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I guess this doesn’t have anything to do with the bug report, but can I ask why that happens? It just feels wrong

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I’ll check this later, I suspect that this might be related to the configured monitor DPI on Windows (so the perfect pixel size depends on the specific DPI you are using).