http://i.imgur.com/p8IBh.png

It looks like there's a problem with the SDK, where fonts appear to be lower-resolution than they ought to be.

On the left, it shows the Corona Simulator with a grey button and a text object sitting on top of it.

On the right, I have a mock-up for my app loaded in Fireworks with the same thing -- a grey button and a text object on top of it. (I exported the grey button image for use my app, but wanted to use Corona's built-in features to generate the text for the buttons.)

As you can see, the resolution of the font seems really low. Anyone have any idea why this might be?

See this thread:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2010/12/17/easily-make-your-text-sharp-retina-displays

Hmmmm.... I was under the impression that they were going to basically make Jon Beebe's Retina Text Function the default. I don't see why not, it works flawlessly.

I guess you have to add require "widget" to use it?

Near the bottom he gives a segment of code to add to main.lua. No need to do the require he mentions in the first post.