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What do you mean by ugly? That GDI text rendering is used on Windows instead of DirectWrite for some font families? This can be disabled in about:config by assi
by mmmrk 7y ago
What do you mean by ugly? That GDI text rendering is used on Windows instead of DirectWrite for some font families? This can be disabled in about:config by assigning `gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families` an empty value. Or do you mean that there's no subpixel positioning on non-Windows/macOS? That one has no fix, except when the text rendering part of WebRender goes into production.
- bscphil 7y agoI'm confused. Doesn't Firefox use Freetype on Linux? Freetype has subpixel rendering.
- ahartmetz 7y agoAFAICT Firefox text rendering has always been fine on Linux. Chrome until a year or two ago had no subpixel antialiasing, different gamma for antialiasing, or whatever - its text rendering used to look ugly, or more neutrally: different from everything else.
- mmmrk 7y agoSubpixel rendering is different from subpixel positioning. See e.g. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824153 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=824153 for some gory details.