Chrome Version       : 48.0.2564.116 (Developer Build) Built on 8.3, running on Debian 8.3 (64-bit)
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    Firefox: OK (Iceweasel)

In a nutshell, Chromium insists on scaling a non-scalable bitmapped font (Terminus), even though the font is available in many suitable sizes.

Attached is a comparison between Iceweasel's (left) and Chromium's rendering of the same test page, one where the `style` attributes for all the text-containing items specify `Terminus` as the font-family.  (Please click on the image to see it at 100%.  The test page's HTML can be seen here: https://gist.github.com/kynnjo/d1c2b75e0903054e0163)

The only size that Chromium gets right is 12px.  It looks like it gets the remaining sizes by scaling 12px.

Here are the things I've tried so far, without success.

(OS is Debian.)

(1) I deleted the following symlinks:

    /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf
    /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

(2) I added the following symlink:

    /etc/fonts/conf.d/50-enable-terminus.conf

(3) I followed the recipe given here http://blog.lazyhacker.com/2014/03/disabling-anti-aliasing-on-chrome.html to inject a custom stylesheet into Chromium, with the following contents:

    * {
      -webkit-font-smoothing: none;
      -webkit-text-size-adjust: none;
      text-size-adjust: none;
    }

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Actually, in order to get Chromium to display Terminus *at all*, I had to force it with a pretty heavy-handed `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf` file, shown here https://gist.github.com/kynnjo/e7ff06a3f8fbee01eccd.

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All the specified sizes are the font's native sizes, as reported by `fc-list --verbose`.

(BTW, the lack of difference between "12px normal" and "12px bold" is to
be expected, since there's no 12px bold in this font.  On the other
hand, there *should* be a difference between sizes 14px and 16px, and
between 18px and 20px, since my system has separate font specification
files for all those sizes.  So maybe Iceweasel's rendering is not
perfect either.  Nevertheless, I'd be delighted if I could get Chromium
to work as well as Iceweasel does here.)

 

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