On Windows 7, I have noticed that font rendering in Pale Moon, FireFox, or IE 11 looks noticeably better than in Chrome or other Chrome-based browsers. In the former browsers the fonts look bolder/sharper/clearer than in Chrome-based browsers.
Does anyone know why this is? I did some googling and couldn't really find an answer.
Here's some related discussion, just confirming that I'm not alone:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... rendering/
This add-on for Chrome makes it more tolerable, but still not as good as PM/FF.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... njdelkiock
Browser font rendering
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Re: Browser font rendering
Probably this (removing DirectWrite): http://www.ghacks.net/2016/06/06/chrome ... ng-google/
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Re: Browser font rendering
Eskaton: I'm afraid you have it backwards.
Chrome uses DirectWrite exclusively for rendering fonts, even at small sizes where the font-shaping of it creates often anemic, too-light or poorly-antialiased fonts.
You can emulate it in Pale Moon by setting gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size to a very small size on a hardware-accelerated setup. Of note, Pale Moon uses GDI for larger fonts than Firefox to work around some edge cases, improving font clarity at the expense of some (potential) speed.
Chrome uses DirectWrite exclusively for rendering fonts, even at small sizes where the font-shaping of it creates often anemic, too-light or poorly-antialiased fonts.
You can emulate it in Pale Moon by setting gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size to a very small size on a hardware-accelerated setup. Of note, Pale Moon uses GDI for larger fonts than Firefox to work around some edge cases, improving font clarity at the expense of some (potential) speed.
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Re: Browser font rendering
IIRC,
Because DirectWrite works best with Direct2D (used by IE & FF),
Chrome use Skia.
Because DirectWrite works best with Direct2D (used by IE & FF),
Chrome use Skia.