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Attached below are screenshots from the 12 most downloaded web browsers. I'm trying to compare the quality of font rendering between all of them.
Avant Browser
Brave
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge (the new one)
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer 11
Maxthon
Opera
SeaMonkey
SlimBrowser
Vivaldi
Waterfox
If you look carefully at the screenshots, font rendering changes according to the engine used by the web browser. Rendered fonts in all of WebKit-based browsers (Chromium) look exactly alike. Same goes for Gecko-based browsers (Firefox). The only exception is Internet Explorer 11 and its Trident engine.
The fonts in WebKit have some kind of Chroma subpixeling and a bit blurry.
This is what we get if we disable "Accelerated 2D canvas" in Chrome (chrome://flags) and force GDI natural in Firefox (set gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode to 2 in about:config). So far, IE 11 produced the prettiest font, Firefox next, and Chrome last. It is very disappointing that most browsers are just clones of Google Chrome - even the new Edge.
Avant Browser
Brave
Google Chrome
Microsoft Edge (the new one)
Mozilla Firefox
Internet Explorer 11
Maxthon
Opera
SeaMonkey
SlimBrowser
Vivaldi
Waterfox
If you look carefully at the screenshots, font rendering changes according to the engine used by the web browser. Rendered fonts in all of WebKit-based browsers (Chromium) look exactly alike. Same goes for Gecko-based browsers (Firefox). The only exception is Internet Explorer 11 and its Trident engine.
The fonts in WebKit have some kind of Chroma subpixeling and a bit blurry.
This is what we get if we disable "Accelerated 2D canvas" in Chrome (chrome://flags) and force GDI natural in Firefox (set gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode to 2 in about:config). So far, IE 11 produced the prettiest font, Firefox next, and Chrome last. It is very disappointing that most browsers are just clones of Google Chrome - even the new Edge.
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