: What's the difference between scaling text via transform and changing font size? Is there a difference between using Transform commands to scale text and altering the size of the font via Character

@Rivera951

Put it simply, @joojaa is the correct answer. If it's straight up text in PS, then using transform to scale is no different then entering the fonts size. It's probably quicker to use transform BUT if you need accuracy, just enter the correct font size. Also, it's important to constraint while transforming or you'll not only change the font size but the vert and horz percent. This is fine if it's what you intend but it's not a true representation of the font.

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@Alves566

If your text is still text, it's not rasterized and you do the scaling proportionally (=not distorting the glyphs), you see that the text stays editable, only the font size changes. There's no difference.

If you have rasterized the text, the scaling afterwards makes it probably somehow detoriated. The rasterization is no more optimal for the size + there's all resampling muddines. Also font can have internal metric rules that change line widths and spacings non-linearly along the font size. If you scale a rasterized font, you bypass those rules.

You can have converted the text to a vector shape. Scaling it also bypasses optimal rasterization rules(=hinting, important in small sizes) and all metric rules.

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