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Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about th

by tuacker 15y ago

Why do fonts look like ants chipped away some pixels in chrome/win7? They look better in Firefox but I remember OSX looking better still, can be wrong about that though since I hadn't access to one in a long time. But fonts in Chrome are plain ugly, someone please turn on AA. FF on the left, Chrome on the right: http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png http://i.imgur.com/SxlaT.png

sp332 15y ago
Hm, not sure what happened there. Chrome isn't applying any anti-aliasing to those fonts. No greyscale, no sub-pixel, nothing.
- bprater 15y ago
  Noticed it, too. Pretty disappointing after waiting years to really be able to play with great typography. Especially painful coming from a Google site rendered inside a Google browser.
juriga 15y ago
Chrome on Windows doesn't use the DirectWrite text rendering engine as opposed to Firefox or IE. See details here: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google-chrome-on-windows http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google... This has been an open issue since 2009. I'm surprised it still hasn't been fixed even though it's a daily nuisance in the world of beautiful web fonts and large type sizes: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 EDIT: an official DirectWrite port of Chrome/Win is currently under development: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/e414182da6a50a86?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/...
sjm 15y ago
You might be interested in gdipp -- after using OS X for a couple years I couldn't stand Windows font rendering, but this really does make it better. Link: http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/ http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/
noibl 15y ago
And yet on WinXP it's the inverse: http://i.imgur.com/fge34.png http://i.imgur.com/fge34.png
jebblue 15y ago
They look fine in Chrome on Ubuntu at least to my eyes.

by tuacker 15y ago

sp332 15y ago

Hm, not sure what happened there. Chrome isn't applying any anti-aliasing to those fonts. No greyscale, no sub-pixel, nothing.

bprater 15y ago
Noticed it, too. Pretty disappointing after waiting years to really be able to play with great typography. Especially painful coming from a Google site rendered inside a Google browser.

juriga 15y ago

Chrome on Windows doesn't use the DirectWrite text rendering engine as opposed to Firefox or IE. See details here: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google-chrome-on-windows http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google... This has been an open issue since 2009. I'm surprised it still hasn't been fixed even though it's a daily nuisance in the world of beautiful web fonts and large type sizes: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 EDIT: an official DirectWrite port of Chrome/Win is currently under development: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/e414182da6a50a86?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/...

sjm 15y ago

You might be interested in gdipp -- after using OS X for a couple years I couldn't stand Windows font rendering, but this really does make it better. Link: http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/ http://code.google.com/p/gdipp/

noibl 15y ago

And yet on WinXP it's the inverse: http://i.imgur.com/fge34.png http://i.imgur.com/fge34.png

jebblue 15y ago

They look fine in Chrome on Ubuntu at least to my eyes.