How to reduce the vertical empty space height/space of the center environment with huge text?

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This famous question explains how you can reduce the empty useless spacing between listings or so, but now I'd like to do the same with center, which also has a big space here:
documentclass{scrartcl}
parskip3mm
parindent0mm % if you want to have no lineskip

usepackage{roboto} % font

usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
lipsum[1]:

begin{center}
    huge
    robotoMedium{OBJECTION}
end{center}

lipsum[1]

end{document}

My aim is that it should read similar as if it was nearly one sentence, i.e.

Here I am describing my:
Objection

I.e. the new line, size and centering should just be some highlighting, but not indicate a new paragraph e.g.
Tries
Of course I already tried the same solution as explained in the linked SE answer:
documentclass{scrartcl}
parskip3mm
parindent0mm % if you want to have no lineskip

newenvironment{centerCompact}
{ begin{center}
    setlength{itemsep}{0pt}
    setlength{parskip}{0pt}
    setlength{parsep}{0pt}     }
{ end{center}                  }

usepackage{roboto} % font

usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
lipsum[1]:

begin{centerCompact}
    huge
    robotoMedium{OBJECTION}
end{centerCompact}

lipsum[1]

end{document}

It improves the situation a bit, but does not fully solve it:

It's still too much.

rugk · Answer

Of course, you can use vspace to workaround that, I just doubt it is the best solution:
documentclass{scrartcl}
parskip3mm
parindent0mm % if you want to have no lineskip

usepackage{roboto} % font

usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
lipsum[1]:

begin{center}
    vspace{-20pt}
    huge
    robotoMedium{OBJECTION}
    vspace{-10pt}
end{center}

lipsum[1]

end{document}

David Carlisle · Answer

Firstly, you comment that you do not want it to appear as a separate paragraph, but you are explicitly marking a paragraph break before and after the centered text (which adds extra vertical space amongst other things) so removing that helps.
Then center is a one item list and lists are set off with topsep vertical spacing so setting that to 0pt makes a tighter display.
Alternatively, for single line entries as shown in the second form you can keep it all in the same paragraph at the tex level using   rather than a display environment, and centering with makebox.

documentclass{scrartcl}
parskip3mm
parindent0mm % if you want to have no lineskip ??? (this doesn't affect lineskip)

usepackage{roboto} % font
setlengthtopsep{0pt}
usepackage{lipsum}

begin{document}
lipsum[1]:
begin{center}
    huge
    robotoMedium{OBJECTION}
end{center}
lipsum[1]:[5pt]
makebox[textwidth]{HugerobotoMedium{OBJECTION}}
lipsum[1]

lipsum[1]

end{document}

How to reduce the vertical empty space height/space of the center environment with huge text?

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