> Doesn't Chromium use its own font rendering system? Not really. It has to do a lot of font-related work to implement the web standards but they're using freetype2/harfbuzz like everyone else. > I've noticed that on other OSes it has its own rendering style that doesn't use subpixel > rendering either, so it looks different but not necessarily worse. You're getting confused by the fact that it didn't use DirectWrite on Windows for quite some time. It *certainly* had subpixel rendering there and on the other supported platforms. Windows has both a legacy font rendering stack and a modern one with a different appearance and better performance. Many applications use the old stack but people spend a lot of time in browsers so it got noticed. > It looks fine on my Arch install, so its either respecting my font > settings or the in-built rendering settings are (perhaps by > coincidence) the same as my own preferences. I should point out that I > always turn off subpixel rendering and use greyscale antialiasing > instead, because the colour fringes on subpixel text are annoying. I doubt you're able to notice color fringes with black-on-white or white-on-black with the lcdfilter set to lcdlight. You probably just didn't have it configured correctly (i.e. no lcdfilter).
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