I enabled ClearType with the default settings by going to the Display control panel, choosing “Adjust ClearType text” on the left, and checking the box entitled “Turn on ClearType.” It walks you through a short wizard to tune ClearType, which you should find self-explanatory, like an eye exam. Very polite of it, unlike Internet Explorer which runs with ClearType enabled all the time. Chrome obeys the system preference and will not use it if it’s disabled. ClearType is a technology in Microsoft Windows to do sub-pixel anti-aliasing of text to smooth the edges of fonts, making them look less jagged. Here’s how I fixed it on my Windows 7 hosts, and based on some of my reading in forums and bug reports I suspect it may work on other versions of Windows, too. That’s like WTF levels of crappy, right? It was happening all the time, on all different web sites. The image on the left is what I saw in Chrome, and the image on the right is what I should have seen when visiting a particular web site: I don’t mean to be a snob about it, but I look at this thing many hours every day, and I’d like it to work right. I get fonts with missing pieces, fonts that don’t render completely, text that is completely absent, and text with severely pixelated edges. In fact, it’s been my biggest complaint about that browser. I’ve been having a heck of a time with terrible font rendering in Chrome.
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