> > 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. I installed Windows in a virtual machine last week because it saves time rebooting when I use it so infrequently, and was surprised to discover that the font rendering used in Chrome's web page display frame was greyscale and not ClearType/subpixel like the rest of Windows. I don't use Windows frequently enough to comment on whether or not this has changed. > > > 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). > I've tried various combinations of filters and settings for my font rendering, and all subpixel rendered text (even on OS X) looks slightly off; some letters have colour fringes, some letters are a slightly different colour to others, and it can be quite distracting. Maybe it's different with font hinting set to a higher value; I always opt for 'slight' or 'none' because I prefer the smoother shapes over the more pixelated look of Windows.
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