BETTER?! 
Naw, I really just whipped that together as quickly as possible to see how things would look. Didn't even bother to do all of the capital letters, and just kinda gave no craps about the positioning of the lowercase letters.
Fortunately, it fixed the kerning problem! Unfortunately, some text doesn't scale up nicely and is difficult to fit within its grid. I may end up putting together my own textures for text after all! I can definitely make the text look 16:9 by design if I spend enough time on it, at least.
*EDIT*
Even though it was a bit of a joke at first, I actually fell in love with the completely mismatched font style for Wind Waker. It fits Wind Waker's art direction well, it's fun, and it looks fantastic on the menus. I went ahead and completed it. You can see the end result here. I'll get back to morphing textures about now, though!
Naw, I really just whipped that together as quickly as possible to see how things would look. Didn't even bother to do all of the capital letters, and just kinda gave no craps about the positioning of the lowercase letters.
Fortunately, it fixed the kerning problem! Unfortunately, some text doesn't scale up nicely and is difficult to fit within its grid. I may end up putting together my own textures for text after all! I can definitely make the text look 16:9 by design if I spend enough time on it, at least.
*EDIT*
Even though it was a bit of a joke at first, I actually fell in love with the completely mismatched font style for Wind Waker. It fits Wind Waker's art direction well, it's fun, and it looks fantastic on the menus. I went ahead and completed it. You can see the end result here. I'll get back to morphing textures about now, though!