Pretty cool story of mainline Chrome benefiting from changes implemented in Edge.
Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
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#12I was missing some info about subpixel anti-aliasing (ClearType) and Low- vs Hi-DPI screens.
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#13Chromium can't render fonts at all after they got rid of GDI rendering. Just compare Verdana 12pt in Word/LibreOffice and Chrome, they're not seriously trying to tell me that's the correct font? The letters don't even look the same.
Left is Firefox with GDI, right is Chrome: https://i.redd.it/0fk50cgcexie1.png
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#14I feel like the before/after picture is a prank. I can’t tell a difference, at least looking at it on my iPad.
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#15I’ll have to look closer into Skia but DirectWrite is text API par excellence.
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#16I feel like the before/after picture is a prank. I can’t tell a difference, at least looking at it on my iPad.
Visible on a phone, though the why is not clearly seen because that's not how you compare such poor quality pics - you need to flip back & forth, preferably zoomed (a common fail of most of these kind of blogs is not to do that). Then you can see the deficiencies on the left and the reason why it's so thin - in letters like 'i' the vertical bar is semi-transparent, not solid
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#17Skia https://skia.org>
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#18I feel like the before/after picture is a prank. I can’t tell a difference, at least looking at it on my iPad.
Right side looks slightly better on a 1440p 27" oled, text has better contrast.
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#19I’ll have to look closer into Skia but DirectWrite is text API par excellence.
> DirectWrite is text API par excellence.
One has to only look at the... storied (to say the least) history of Microsoft's first-party 2D graphics/text APIs to see it took a lot of iteration to get to this point; and it leaves me wondering when the next inflection on the learning curve will be released...
Meanwhile, GDI will somehow still live-on.
Re: Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows
#20I feel like the before/after picture is a prank. I can’t tell a difference, at least looking at it on my iPad.
If you look at the non-highlighted black text, in the new version - the text is darker. I agree it's minor, but it's definitely darker. https://developer.chrome.com/static/blog/better-text-renderi... Note: I'm not affiliated to Chromium in any way.
Embedding that image in a blog where it has to be resized down is silly since it makes the change impossible to see. At full size I can easily see the difference between the two though.