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This is great. Finally web fonts and icon fonts don't look terrible on Windows/Chrome. I'm using Chrome Canary to test, and you can really see the difference on
by rossy 12y ago
This is great. Finally web fonts and icon fonts don't look terrible on Windows/Chrome. I'm using Chrome Canary to test, and you can really see the difference on Google Fonts and the Font Awesome homepage. GDI with ClearType only does anti-aliasing in the x-direction, so the tops of letters like G and Q look pretty blocky in Chrome stable. With DirectWrite they look perfect.
- signal11 12y agoI've been using DirectWrite on Canary as well, and its a huge improvement. Some may even like Chrome's DirectWrite implementation over IE11's, which tends to produce really thick letters for some reason. Here's the same text rendered in IE11, Firefox and Chrome (on Windows 7) -- http://i.imgur.com/pOUJlHE.png http://i.imgur.com/pOUJlHE.png
- swah 12y agoAnd Firefox rendering here seems kinda green, right?
- rikkus 12y agoI can think of two possibilities: 1. IE is honouring the ClearType tuning settings. 2. The default gammas are different.
- spyder 12y agoIt looks like IE is using only greyscale anti-aliasing and not sub-pixel anti-aliasing like the others.
- swah 12y agoTo me, HN looks better on the old one... why is this? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/canary.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/canary.png