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I hate to be that guy, but when I'm viewing the font on this site at default size, the cross of every "t" is twice as thick as everything else and it's extremel

by jere 14y ago

I hate to be that guy, but when I'm viewing the font on this site at default size, the cross of every "t" is twice as thick as everything else and it's extremely distracting. It looks fine if I increase the font size and slightly better in IE for some reason.

raldi 14y ago
I'm not seeing it; how bout a screenshot?
- dangrossman 14y ago
  Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/VBgcURG.png http://i.imgur.com/VBgcURG.png IE10: http://i.imgur.com/ZBrhDoS.png http://i.imgur.com/ZBrhDoS.png Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/ROwDLkb.png http://i.imgur.com/ROwDLkb.png Chrome's text rendering has been pretty broken on Windows since September 2012-ish. There are lots of long bug reports on Chromium's tracker with little effort to fix them. Custom fonts render too thin to the point of discontinuities in the glyphs. The blitting algorithm was messed up so non-black text is often rendered a significantly different color than is specified in the stylesheet. High DPI support is nonexistant (while it was supported for Mac and Linux quickly), so rasterized text is simply scaled up by fractional multipliers, which makes it terribly blurry in both the UI and webpages. I can only imagine that so many on the Chrome team are running Macs and Ubuntu that they don't see how terrible their software is becoming on Windows in fundamental ways.
  - anonymous 14y ago
    Damn those are ugly. If I had to choose though, I'd pick Chrome. The variable width is nothing compared to the rainbow text of the latter two.
    - deleted 14y ago
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    - ferongr 14y ago
      There's almost no fringing in Firefox's text (and Mozilla devs went through a lot of pain trying to find good defaults for DirectWrite text in the post Fx4 days) but there's quite a bit in IE's text (see the "k" and "a" letters). Chrome's text looks completely atrocious though. Hinting is completely random and different letters have different sizes. To my experience, this has been this way since the release of Chrome. With the proliferation of Webfonts some time later Mozilla's and Microsoft's choice to use DirectWrite paid off while Chrome has made no improvement.
    - gcr 14y ago
      Working on a CRT monitor? You can easily adjust subpixel smoothing settings on any OS to get rid of the rainbow. (Windows calls this "Cleartype"; it's right in the control panel)
    - oakwhiz 14y ago
      The text is "rainbow" on purpose because subpixel rendering is enabled (it enhances text for specific LCD monitor types)
lmm 14y ago
Yeah, it's pretty awful. Evernote Clearly FTW.

by jere 14y ago

raldi 14y ago

I'm not seeing it; how bout a screenshot?

dangrossman 14y ago
Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/VBgcURG.png http://i.imgur.com/VBgcURG.png IE10: http://i.imgur.com/ZBrhDoS.png http://i.imgur.com/ZBrhDoS.png Firefox: http://i.imgur.com/ROwDLkb.png http://i.imgur.com/ROwDLkb.png Chrome's text rendering has been pretty broken on Windows since September 2012-ish. There are lots of long bug reports on Chromium's tracker with little effort to fix them. Custom fonts render too thin to the point of discontinuities in the glyphs. The blitting algorithm was messed up so non-black text is often rendered a significantly different color than is specified in the stylesheet. High DPI support is nonexistant (while it was supported for Mac and Linux quickly), so rasterized text is simply scaled up by fractional multipliers, which makes it terribly blurry in both the UI and webpages. I can only imagine that so many on the Chrome team are running Macs and Ubuntu that they don't see how terrible their software is becoming on Windows in fundamental ways.
- anonymous 14y ago
  Damn those are ugly. If I had to choose though, I'd pick Chrome. The variable width is nothing compared to the rainbow text of the latter two.
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  - ferongr 14y ago
    There's almost no fringing in Firefox's text (and Mozilla devs went through a lot of pain trying to find good defaults for DirectWrite text in the post Fx4 days) but there's quite a bit in IE's text (see the "k" and "a" letters). Chrome's text looks completely atrocious though. Hinting is completely random and different letters have different sizes. To my experience, this has been this way since the release of Chrome. With the proliferation of Webfonts some time later Mozilla's and Microsoft's choice to use DirectWrite paid off while Chrome has made no improvement.
  - gcr 14y ago
    Working on a CRT monitor? You can easily adjust subpixel smoothing settings on any OS to get rid of the rainbow. (Windows calls this "Cleartype"; it's right in the control panel)
  - oakwhiz 14y ago
    The text is "rainbow" on purpose because subpixel rendering is enabled (it enhances text for specific LCD monitor types)

lmm 14y ago

Yeah, it's pretty awful. Evernote Clearly FTW.