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Improve font rendering to be on par with Firefox or at least original Edge
I cannot believe this has marked as "Not applicable". I hate all of the Chromium browsers because of this bug. The way they render fonts is disgusting. This is why I always return to Firefox.
pozxc If you haven't tried it yet, we've diversified our options for font settings, which you can check out here: edge://settings/fonts. We hope that's a satisfactory resolution!
Fawkes (they/them)
Project & Community Manager - Microsoft Edge
DeletedThank you for your reply and the suggestion. I've tried the most recent canary version, which is 81.0.375.0, and all I see in edge://settings/fonts is some regular font family and font size settings:
What I and the original poster tries to mention is the problem that all Chromium browsers have on Windows.
The following screenshot is from Mozilla Firefox:And the following one is from Chromium Edge:
I hope the difference is noticable.
Bonus:
This one is from the non-Chromium Edge (almost equal to Firefox):
pozxc Deleted v-gapart The "wimpy font" rendering (thin, grayed out) of EdgeChromium has been a topic of discussion on this Forum since April-May, including threads in which folks with more skill than I have done pixel-by-pixel analysis of the differences between EdgeChromium, EdgeClassic and Firefox rendering.
The bad news is that this is the first thread (of at least a half dozen) in which Microsoft employees have entered the discussion. The good news is that Microsoft employees have entered the discussion and now, perhaps, Microsoft will pay some attention to the rendering issue.
I want to thank Anonymous for pointing out the possibility of using Chrome extensions to bring EdgeChromium fonts closer to the EdgeClassic and Firefox level of readability. I've found three that seem to do a good job (Chrome Font Rendering Enhancer**, Font Rendering Enhancer, and Font Expander**). All work slightly differently, with slightly different results, but each of them bring EdgeChromium font rendering close to the level of EdgeClassic and Firefox.
I've elected to use Font Rendering Enhancer as a workaround, but it seems to me that users should not have to find and install extensions from the Chrome Store to get basic functionality like a readable font. That's Microsoft's job to fix, and fix it Microsoft should before force-switching users from EdgeClassic to EgdeChromium.
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**I should note, as a caution, that both Font Expander and Chrome Font Rendering Enhancer are given permission to access your browsing history. Font Rendering Enhancer requires no permissions.
tomscharbach An excellent post. The edge://settings/fonts do not solve the problem. This is not about font pt sizing nor font typefaces. This is about font width and/or antialiasing. These are completely separate from the font's point size or typeface.
Compare Edge Chromium vs Edge EdgeHTML. I've enlarged the "D" from the third word, "December", in the paragraph.
Note the vertical line on the "D"
Chromium shades the left side a light color, making the text blend into the background (?? why ??).
EdgeHTML shades left half a dark color, making a crisp edge on the left (and thus easier to read).Please do see the font anti-aliasing and font width. This is a rendering problem, not a customization problem.
