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All browsers on Windows by now use DirectWrite and Direct2D as far as I know. It's not an inherent limitation of the text rendering API. Yes, GDI always uses pi

by ygra 8y ago

All browsers on Windows by now use DirectWrite and Direct2D as far as I know. It's not an inherent limitation of the text rendering API. Yes, GDI always uses pixel-grid fitting, but no browser has used GDI text rendering for a while on Windows (Chrome was the last to switch, IIRC, and before they did, webfonts looked horrible).