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Microsoft is making Chrome’s text rendering better on Windows


This isn’t the first time Microsoft has helped Google improve Chrome.

By Tom Warren, a senior editor covering Microsoft, PC gaming, console, and tech. Chrome uses Skia for text rendering with hard-coded values for contrast and gamma, so it wasn’t picking up the improvements that ClearType has to offer. Now, Neowin has spotted that Microsoft engineers have integrated ClearType Text Tuner support into Chrome so it picks up any changes to contrast and gamma, just like most other native Windows apps.

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