Why is Sprite Kit Text Resolution Slightly Pixelated?

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I was thinking of putting adding a UITableView to a SKView, but I read the answer here which mentioned it would be 'crude': Sprite Kit Table View

I tested it, and the text in the tableview is slightly pixelated. Out of curiousity, I also made a simple stand-alone SKLabelNode and noticed it was not retina-quality either.

My question(s) is why is the text in these cases not retina? Is there a way I can make them sharper as if they were rendered by UIKit? What is the underlying concept I need to understand with respect to text and Sprite Kit?

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iosuitableviewsprite-kitsklabelnode
what font (name)? what font size? is the node scaled? The only thing I observed is that you can't go lower than a specific fontSize, ie 10px or so. The reason may be that fonts are rasterized (ie drawn to a texture) rather than drawn as vector graphics like I assume UIKit does. – LearnCocos2D
I am using HelveticaNeue-Light at fontSize = 30. Using UIKit it is very sharp. The scene is init with size set as follows in the ViewController (a stock approach I believe): SKScene * scene = [MyScene sceneWithSize:skView.bounds.size]; – Narwhal
hmmm maybe changing scene scaleMode affects this? – LearnCocos2D

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My simulator was set to test using the iPad, not iPad retina. D'oh