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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....
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.
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.
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
