The default text-decoration letters look a little bit squished together:
I can manually make them the way I want by changing gather
to
g{\kern1pt a}{\kern1pt t}{\kern1pt h}{\kern1pt e}{\kern1pt r}{}
but this is tedious and annoying. (more so for longer decorations)
Is there an automatic method of tweaking all the letters apart?
\documentclass[border=2mm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{arrows, decorations.text}
\tikzset{>=latex}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{scope}
\draw[->, cyan!50!white, line width=1.5mm ] (6.8cm,-1.7) -- (9.5cm,-1.7) arc (-90:0:1.5) -- (11cm,1.5);
\draw[decoration={text along path, text={|\sffamily|gather},text align={center},raise=0.2cm},decorate] (6.8cm,-1.7) -- (9.5cm,-1.7) arc (-90:0:1.5) -- (11cm,1.5);
\end{scope}
\begin{scope}[yshift=-3cm]
\draw[->, cyan!50!white, line width=1.5mm ] (6.8cm,-1.7) -- (9.5cm,-1.7) arc (-90:0:1.5) -- (11cm,1.5);
\draw[decoration={text along path, text={|\sffamily|g{\kern1pt a}{\kern1pt t}{\kern1pt h}{\kern1pt e}{\kern1pt r}{}},text align={center},raise=0.2cm},decorate] (6.8cm,-1.7) -- (9.5cm,-1.7) arc (-90:0:1.5) -- (11cm,1.5);
\end{scope}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
microtype
's\lsstyle
would be a possibilitytext={|\lsstyle\sffamily|gather}
does the job; can you write an answer?