CPT5 - Variables in Captions - Best font choices to conceal rendering problems?

Hi all - long time reader of these forums (you've saved me many a headache!) but first-time poster.
Thought I'd turn to the forum for help regarding a known issue - the fact that once a variable is dropped into a caption, it dramatically breaks its style, anti-aliasing, and alignment. From what I've read, this issues remains unresolved in both CPT5 and CPT5.5... (If I'm wrong in this respect I will be all too happy though.) For those unfamiliar with the issue, I've attached a screenshot.
What I'd like to know is:
What font choices are recommended to best conceal the effects of this known issue?
While I've seen this bug discussed a couple of times, I haven't found a comprehensive list identifying "safe"(ish) fonts to use as a workaround.
As you can see in the screenshot, Trebuchet MS in BOLD seems to be pretty stylistically similar between the "broken" and "unbroken" versions, leaving only the alignment issues to resolve. Note that I don't want to drop a blank variable into all my captions since I'd rather deal with less alignment/other issues rather than more.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Lilybiri,
Thanks for your reply, and sorry for the delay in my response. I'm working on Captivate for a part-time job currently.
I gave the faux style effects a shot, and while I didn't notice much of an improvement over the hardcoded style sets, I did manage to find a number of fonts which remain reasonably similar to their original versions even when a variable is inserted.
Here are the fonts I identified, showing both hardcoded and faux styles, with and without variables (compare upper and lower for a given row, not left and right):
As seen above, alignment remains an issue, but that's (probably) workable by identifying the shift degree and manually compensating by moving every variable-containing caption by this value.
Hopefully this post will be of use to some other poor Captivate designer who encounters this issue as well.

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