Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
Change your aspect ratio setting in the ingame options.

edit: derp, already been covered. Still, my names don't look stretched to me. I could just be used to it, but I'm not seeing this.
Run FFXI in Window mode and resize the window till it's approximately 4:3. That's what the linkpearl and character name font is supposed to look like. The aspect ratio setting affects everything but character names the status icon text to the name and onscreen battle messages. I don't see why this is seeing as they are all displayed inside polygon billboards with font textures on them but for some reason they are an exception to the aspect ratio setting.