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  • Published 6 Feb 2026

Typography improvements

One huge weakness of Blender compared to Cinema 4D is fonts/typography .

There is a addon called ST2 and I don’t see why those features aren’t built-in. github.com/coldtype/st2

We need support for variable fonts, kerning, OpenType stylistics sets, ligatures.

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ollie7
6 Feb 2026

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stfdln

Was just going to ask for it another time ! Please devs, I know improvements have been made lately (letter filling doesn't look weird anymore and it's a good thing) but as a motion designer I find it really hard to work with a text tool that doesn't even take kerning and opentype features into account. The text always look ugly. Plus if you get to work with art directors that are very picky about it it makes things really complicated. ST2 saved my life numerous times but I can't have it to work with 5.1