# Text rendering issue, lowercase 'a' and 'o' too large

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-rendering-issue-lowercase-a-and-o-too-large/228061>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 5, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-rendering-issue-lowercase-a-and-o-too-large/228061 "2007-06-05T03:29:06Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2007, 3:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-rendering-issue-lowercase-a-and-o-too-large/228061/1 "2007-06-05T03:29:06Z")

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I’m having a very strange issue with text rendering. I have a dynamic text field that displays text from an external XML file.

The font is Arial size 12. When I set the Anti-alias bitmap (none) it displays as expected. But, when I set it to anti-alias for readability the lowercase ‘a’ and ‘o’ characters appear to be one size larger than the other characters. I have all upper and lawercase character embedded.

Just for kicks I moved the font size down to 11 and it appears normal. Also tried moving it up to 13 and appeared normal then too. So it’s only a problem with Arial size 12 with anti-alias for readability.

Any clues to this strange behavior? I really need to use that font size so just changing to another size is not a solution.