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Status: WontFix
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Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed: Sep 2017
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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52 DirectWrite & WebFonts AA

Reported by izen.dr...@gmail.com, Aug 23 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/52.0.2743.116 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nnZOqoqrX0

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Windows 8.1 (6.3.9600) on a 96 dpi screen with "ClearType ®" and "Smooth edges of screen fonts" disabled.
(e.g. :
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop]
"FontSmoothing"="0"
"FontSmoothingType"=dword:00000000

And relogin.
)
Go to ANY site with WebFonts on it.

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
My eyes bleed with any text rendered with any web font.

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? Yes 51 

Does this work in other browsers? No FF 47

Chrome version: 52.0.2743.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 6.3
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0

At least I can disable webfonts in FF, while painkiller pills is the only option with Chrome 52. 
BTW, IE11 works just fine. just fine.
 
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Comment 1 by junov@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016

Components: -Blink Blink>Fonts

Comment 2 by e...@chromium.org, Aug 23 2016

Owner: kulshin@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Unconfirmed)
We used to force antialiasing on for webfonts, regardless of the "Smooth edges of screen fonts" setting. This can clearly be seen in the M51 screenshot.
Looks like we're no longer doing that in 52.

Ilya, would you mind looking into this?

Hmm. If it meant something: even adding -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; or subpixel-antialiased does nothing. 

Comment 4 by e...@chromium.org, Sep 8 2016

 Issue 643940  has been merged into this issue.

Comment 5 Deleted

disable LCD font antialiasing flag does folowing
disabled blurry font
enabled fuzzy font with some red tint insted black font as with old good gdi

Comment 7 by e...@chromium.org, Sep 8 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Assigned)

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