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Black fonts are more gray than black
Sergio Hernandez Agree, this seems to be common in newer apps and GUIs - thin grey fonts. Can't figure out why - low luminance contrast is never easy to read. Side by side with IE11 with everything zoomed to the same size, Canary is much lighter, thinner, and hard to read. This may be as a result of newer SW scaling fonts in linear light rather than in the usual gamma space. When you have thin black lines on a white background, scaling in gamma space makes the grey edges of those lines darker, making the line look wider - and easier to read. When you scale in linear light it's more "correct", but black on white text gets thinner and lighter = bad. Definitely needs a fix. Side by side open amazon.com and search for anything - easy to see difference. Otherwise Canary working out great.