Maybe you’ve experienced this issue or maybe you haven’t. It is also quite possible that you’ve come across this without even realizing it. After all, there are only subtle differences, but those differences are annoying none-the-less. Look at your AutoCAD Text. Look at it again. Do you see any instances of that text appearing a little larger or bolder than others? Do you occasionally find AutoCAD Text that plots darker than it should? You might have just disregarded it, but I would bet on the possibility that you probably tried to discover what was happening over and over again only to find no solution.

What are the first thoughts that comes to mind when confronted with this issue? Is your first action to run a REGEN or REA command in the drawing? Text size, color, boldness are also likely culprits. You’ll probably move on to checking the AutoCAD Text Style of the text entities to see if one of them is different. Not different? No big surprise there, because you probably couldn’t figure out why one or a couple instances of text entities would have ended up on a different text style anyway. How about some of the text being standard DTEXT and others being MTEXT? Eh, probably wasn’t the solution either. Run as many commands as you’d like, but there is only one that will help you (though there are multiple methods to to perform the same fix).

So, why do you have some AutoCAD Text entities displaying slightly bigger, bolder, or darker than others when the are on the same Text Style, height, color, layer, font settings, and were created in the exact same function (DTEXT vs. MTEXT)? The answer is simple, but equally bewildering. Select the AutoCAD Text object that looks different. Using whatever means you prefer, check the elevation of that text object. Now compare the resulting elevation to another instance of text. What did you discover? They were created or moved to different elevations, weren’t they?

Well, it doesn’t matter how or why it happened, but the solution to your problem is easy. Select all the text in your drawing and set it to an elevation that makes sense for your purpose. You can select the irregular text entities and MOVE them or select all of them and adjust/correct all text via the Properties Palette. I would like to say that elevation would be 0 (zero), but that won’t always be the case as we move more and more into designing within a 3D world. As long as all your AutoCAD Text entities get moved to the same elevation, you will have consistency in the size, boldness, and darkness that you want and need. I really hope this helps solve one of the AutoCAD mysteries you’ve come across!