Solved:
It was the bounding box parameters (optional parameters, in bold below) that were messing up the line spacing. The fix was to use a monospaced font + take out those optional bounding box params. The raw string was helpful for the copy and pasting I did from one sketch to another, but it ultimately wasn’t needed when working all within 1 sketch. Thanks for all your help @scudly !
text(currResp, width / 2+20, currHei,width/2-30, currHei+300);