Variable Color Font blurry (only in Chrome)

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I have an experimental variable color CPAL/COLR font (with Color Palette 0, 1, …) which is working nicely in Safari and FF, but in Chrome it looks incredibly blurry on the edges.

Is that a know issue, and if so a way to fix that?

@Arthus

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This is a known issue, with currently no fix (as far as I know). Chrome’s color font support still isn’t foolproof and still has some quirks, so I think the issue stems from that side of Chrome’s type support.

So it’s time for more variable color font work and uses and let’s hope the devs step up!

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Thanks for chiming in! Good and sad to know. Do you happen to even know where this is reported? I searched the web but didn’t find anything, would be happy to collectively raise the issue to their attention :slightly_smiling_face:

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I haven’t raised the issue with Chrome (I know I should have, but as a tech nitwit such reports sometimes feel daunting, especially as I haven’t delved into it that far enough I feel). It can probably be submitted through: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium ?

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Thank you. Here it is.

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Exiting, it’s validated and on their plate now, officially marked as a bug for all major OS.

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I have also run into that problem – seems to do with Chrome is using it’s own font rendering rather than system one – if you turn off ‘hardware acceleration’ in the advanced settings in Chrome and relaunch it will render crisp (for me at least).

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Yeah, but I’d rather have a bug fixed for everyone than fixing it for me :slightly_smiling_face:

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