#625·vhs

text looks really blurry

Author: k4lizenCreated May 25, 2025Updated Aug 25, 2026

This has already been discussed here: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/issues/69 . I guess the resolution/fontsize combination determines this. I'm looking at sizes around the

Set FontSize 12
Set Width 1280
Set Height 720

ballpark but the text looks really blurry. A video created by agg at a similar resolution comes out much crisper. I've been trying different combinations of these values with vhs but haven't had any luck.

From the afformentioned issue:

One thing you can try is to increase the Height and Width and increase the FontSize and then scale it down after.

I'd rather not have to do this every time. It's much easier to reproduce the image (where other contributors might want to modify it etc..) if all I need is a .tape file (really cool stuff!).

I think there might be a few things we can do somethings on our end regarding font anti-aliasing, etc... as well

Is this still possible?

Maybe this would help?: https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs/issues/578 I'm not sure.