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Status: WontFix
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Closed: May 2018
Cc:
█ hdodda@chromium.org
jmukthavaram@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Profile name is unreadable because it's rendered in an outline font

Reported by christop...@gmail.com, Aug 20 2017 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.101 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Have multiple profiles
2. Launch the browser
3. Note the font used to draw the current-profile label

What is the expected behavior?
Legibility

What went wrong?
The label is now drawn in an outline font.  It makes it extremely hard to read compared to the solid typeface used previously, especially on modern high-resolution monitors.

Screenshot attached to illustrate the problem.  Outline fonts are basically *always* a bad choice because of unreadability.

Did this work before? Yes Unknown -- the outline font thing is recent, though.

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.101  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
chrome-profile-outline.JPG
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Comment 1 by hdodda@chromium.org, Aug 22 2017

Cc: herb@chromium.org hdodda@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Triage-M60 Needs-Feedback
@herb-- Could you please look into this , as it seems to be related to  recent fix for the  issue 745290  and please provide any further update.

Issue : https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=745290

Thanks!

Comment 2 by herb@google.com, Aug 22 2017

Cc: -herb@chromium.org
Skia for m60 was cut in May. The code I changed to handle blurs differently was added to Skia in July. I don't think my changes have anything to do with this.

Comment 3 by christop...@gmail.com, Aug 23 2017 

I note that on  issue 745290  in comment 1, the "Win10_expected_result" image is very similar to what I see (and screenshotted above).  This concerns me:  it implies that the blur/outline/shadow text is intentional.

That is the crux of the problem here.  I suspect that the text *is* drawing as-intended.  The problem is that it is a counterproductive and anti-legibility UX decision to use that kind of typeface:  a regression in *usability* as a result of "correct" rendering of ill-chosen text styles.
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Comment 4 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Aug 23 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "hdodda@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 5 by jmukthavaram@chromium.org, Nov 3 2017

Cc: jmukthavaram@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback
Unable to reproduce the issue on Windows 7,10 & Mac 10.12.6 using chrome stable-62.0.3202.75 & Canary-64.0.3256.0 as per the above information.

User able to read the Profile name clearly without any rendering issue.
christopher.tate@,
Could you please check this issue on latest chrome versions & let us know your observations on the same.Please find the attached screenshot for reference.

Thanks in advance..!
Canary.PNG
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Comment 6 by kkaluri@chromium.org, May 22 2018

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Closing issue as Wontfix due to lack of feedback requested but not provided. If the issue still exists please open a new issue with the details requested.

Thanks..!
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