Ways to remove the horizontal stretching of smaller fonts?

Question

I apologize if this is simple, but I am not really sure how to do this.

Is there a way to make the smaller fonts not stretch horizontally so much? From what I read it is for readability, but in this day and age we can all zoom in on a PDF to read fonts, and tons of papers have incredibly small font size for footnotes, which is fine because you can just zoom in.

I have a table and I set the font to \tiny initially, and currently I have it as \fontsize{6}{6}\selectfont. I know for a fact that what I have written will perfectly fit in one line (made it in word), but I cannot do it in a table environment within LaTeX, unless I use \fontsize{5}{5}\selectfont. Using \fontsize{6}{6}\selectfont will not have enough room for the text to all fit on one line. So ,does anyone know how to reduce the stretching of small fonts for visibility sakes, which IMO isn't super necessary, since word will do this perfectly, and we can just zoom in.

Here is a MWE showing the issue.

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[left=1.5in,right=1.0in,top=1.0in,bottom=1.0in,footskip=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[skip=0.5ex]{caption} % skip specifies space between caption and toprule
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[ht]
\fontsize{6}{6}\selectfont 
\caption{Brief summary some data}
\begin{tabulary}{\linewidth}{@{}LLLLLLLLL@{}}
\label{tab:table1}\
\toprule
\textbf{Header} & \textbf{Header} & \textbf{Header} & \textbf{Header} & \textbf{Longer header} & \textbf{Another header} & \textbf{Another header} & \textbf{Header 2} & \textbf{Header 3} \
\midrule
Data & Some tex that might be long  & Some more text  & More text  & More text & Some more text & More text  & Even more text & Some more text that might be even longer with more text \* \bottomrule
\end{tabulary}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

This results in this

As you can see it currently uses \fontsize{6}{6}\selectfont but the font is stretched a lot horizontally.

Also, the rendering is quite poor when zoomed in.

EDIT:

Okay so here is what I am looking for, but seriously there has to be a better way to then to custom-specify every entry to scalebox.

MWE working, but is there a better way??

\documentclass[12pt]{report}
\usepackage[left=1.5in,right=1.0in,top=1.0in,bottom=1.0in,footskip=0.5in]{geometry}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\pagecolor{white} %renders latex PDF in white background
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[skip=0.5ex]{caption} % skip specifies space between caption and toprule
\newcommand{\tinyb}[1]{\scalebox{0.5}{{\normalsize #1}}} % properly scale smaller font sizes
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[ht]
\fontsize{6}{6}\selectfont 
\caption{Brief summary some data}
\begin{tabulary}{\linewidth}{@{}LLLLLLLLL@{}}
\label{tab:table1}\
\toprule
\tinyb{\textbf{Header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Longer header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Another header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Another header}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Header 2}} & \tinyb{\textbf{Header 3}} \
\midrule
\tinyb{Data} & \tinyb{Some tex that might be long}  & \tinyb{Some more text}  & \tinyb{More text}  & \tinyb{More text} & \tinyb{Some more text} & \tinyb{More text}  & \tinyb{Even more text} & \tinyb{Some more text that might be even longer with more text} \* \bottomrule
\end{tabulary}
\end{table}
\end{landscape}
\end{document}

Which results in this, which is what I am trying to accomplish. Perfectly legible, and the characters are actually properly rendered when zoomed in.

So, I ask again. Is there a way to do it so that I don't have to literally specify every entry in a table?