​Microsoft says it improved the distinction of textual content rendered in all Chromium-based net browsers on Home windows, making it extra readable on some shows.
This was achieved by bringing the corporate’s enhanced textual content distinction and gamma correction within the Chromium open-source venture, making enhanced font rendering accessible for all Home windows Chromium-based browsers, together with Google Chrome model 132, launched on January 14.
Home windows customers may use the ClearType Textual content Tuner device to regulate textual content distinction and gamma values, which could be launched by looking for “Regulate ClearType textual content” within the Begin menu.
“This fashion, the standard and readability of the textual content that is displayed in all browsers which are based mostly on Chromium now match that of different native Home windows purposes,” Microsoft stated.
“With the textual content distinction enhancement we made to Chromium, the Home windows ClearType Textual content Tuner now additionally applies to the browser.”
​Microsoft says the Skia textual content rendering engine is behind the blurry textual content points skilled by numerous Chromium-based net browsers. This engine renders “lighter textual content” in Chromium, which is “particularly noticeable in CJK characters.”
Legacy Microsoft Edge did not have this subject as a result of it used the DirectWrite DirectX API like all native Home windows purposes, guaranteeing it adopted system-wide textual content rendering settings.
Nonetheless, 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 elements 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 (through Settings and extra (…) > Assist and suggestions > Ship suggestions) and suggested these utilizing different Chromium-based net browsers to open a brand new subject on the Chromium bug tracker.
In June 2021, the Microsoft Edge Group rolled out one other spherical of font rendering enhancements to Edge Canary builds. This replace ensured the browser revered person ClearType Tuner settings when making use of gamma corrections and textual content distinction enhancements.
