Does that slow down the game? Adding a sprite per letter seems like a real resource hog. Also, why is this preferable to simply typing text in paint and then using that picture as a sprite? Then all the text would only be one sprite.

Thanks for all the responses. So, what exactly are sprite fonts? Is this just a specific font or is it more involved than that?

That's so strange to me. I mean, as a firefox user, I never encounter fonts that look as jaggy as how it looks here. Maybe it truly is just my perception of what it "should" look like, but to me the way the text is coming out really seems like some kind of error.

That's unfortunate, when using large text it really is noticeable and just looks wrong. Are there some fonts that display correctly for all browsers? Or are there only some browsers that will display all fonts correctly?

Sure. Here's the way text looks in the layout:

tinypic.com/view.php

And here's the way it looks when I test it:

tinypic.com/view.php

You need to click on the images to clearly see that the second one is quite a bit less smooth than the first.

Thanks for the response. I use Firefox and it's the only browser I've tested on. How can I do things differently to make the text look as intended? Would it work better if I just wrote text in paint and then made that a sprite?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I just started using Construct. I put some text on my layout and thought it looked fine. I then tested it and found that the font looked much less smooth than it did on the layout. Does anyone know why this might be?