Microsoft says it improved the distinction of textual content rendered in all Chromium-based internet browsers on Home windows, making it extra readable on some shows.
This was accomplished by bringing the corporate’s enhanced textual content distinction and gamma correction within the Chromium open-source undertaking, making enhanced font rendering out there for all Home windows Chromium-based browsers, together with Google Chrome model 132, launched on January 14.
Home windows customers may also use the ClearType Textual content Tuner instrument to regulate textual content distinction and gamma values, which may be launched by looking for “Adjust ClearType text” within the Begin menu.
“This way, the quality and clarity of the text that’s displayed in all browsers that are based on Chromium now match that of other native Windows applications,” Microsoft stated.
“With the text contrast enhancement we made to Chromium, the Windows ClearType Text Tuner now also applies to the browser.”
Microsoft says the Skia textual content rendering engine is behind the blurry textual content points skilled by varied Chromium-based internet browsers. This engine renders “lighter text” in Chromium, which is “especially noticeable in CJK characters.”
Legacy Microsoft Edge did not have this challenge as a result of it used the DirectWrite DirectX API like all native Home windows functions, guaranteeing it adopted system-wide textual content rendering settings.
Nevertheless, as soon as Microsoft switched to Chromium, Edge additionally inherited the textual content blurriness issues as a result of Chromium solely makes use of DirectWrite “for some parts of the text-rendering pipeline” and Skia for the remainder.
The corporate requested Microsoft Edge customers for suggestions on the brand new textual content rendering modifications (by way of Settings and extra (…) > Assist and suggestions > Ship suggestions) and suggested these utilizing different Chromium-based internet browsers to open a brand new challenge on the Chromium bug tracker.
In June 2021, the Microsoft Edge Workforce rolled out one other spherical of font rendering enhancements to Edge Canary builds. This replace ensured the browser revered consumer ClearType Tuner settings when making use of gamma corrections and textual content distinction enhancements.
