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Brass Contributor

Apr 09, 2019

Black fonts are more gray than black

Hi! Please make the new chromium Edge render black fonts black, not Grey, if you open Outlook.com and compare the fonts, new edge's are greyish and more difficult to read specially on Hi res screens....

BruceLH

Brass Contributor

Apr 10, 2019

Sergio Hernandez I commented on this yesterday and it has been bugging me enough I did a little more digging.

It appears the old edge doesn't use a true greyscale with its anti-aliasing. I think this is what is leading to the new edge text looking washed out. I've included some reference examples below. The first is at normal text size and the other is magnified 800%. It appears they do a similar level of anti-aliasing just using different color paletes. (For reference, this text was grabbed from CNN.com's current headline article.)

I definitely find the old syte easier to read.

gregwhitworth
Former Employee
Apr 26, 2019
BruceLH Sergio Hernandez Thank you so much for this feedback. You're not being picky at all, this is one that we actually addressed in EdgeHTML in 2016. We're actively investigating this space to understand further the design decisions made by the Chromium community. Thanks again for your feedback; keep it coming!
- Sergio Hernandez
  Brass Contributor
  Apr 27, 2019
  Thanks for your response gregwhitworth !
Sergio Hernandez
Brass Contributor
Apr 10, 2019
It also found that in my personal 1440p monitor the difference is more noticeable than in the office 1080p. Maybe ips vs lcd and contrast/brightnes configuration makes it more visible too.
- Elliot Kirk
  Former Employee
  Apr 10, 2019
  Sergio Hernandez & BruceLH thank you for digging in. I have copied this thread into our bug database and sent it to the rendering team for triage.
  
  Elliot