[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#580622: Subpixel hinting makes fonts blurry

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Sun May 9 18:42:49 UTC 2010


Package: chromium-browser
Severity: normal

I investigated further, and it *seems* that chromium might just not use
the right hintstyle.  I zoomed in on some blurry text from Chromium, and
some non-blurry text from Firefox.  Both of them use sub-pixel
antialiasing, but chromium seems to smear out the font, while Firefox
snaps it to a pixel size.  If I change the system hintstyle to use
"slight", Firefox's fonts look closer to Chromium's, and they smear out
the same way.

Screenshots momentarily.

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii  chromium-browser-ins 5.0.375.29~r46008-3 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii  libasound2           1.0.22-2            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.30.0-1            The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libavcodec52         4:0.5.1-3           ffmpeg codec library
ii  libavformat52        4:0.5.1-3           ffmpeg file format library
ii  libbz2-1.0           1.0.5-4             high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                2.10.2-7            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2            1.8.10-4            The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.2.24-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2     0.86-1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2       1.4.13-stable-1     An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1            2.0.1-7             XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1       2.8.0-2.1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6         2.3.11-1            FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1              1:4.4.4-1           GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4          2.28.1-3            GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.24.1-1            The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.20.1-1            The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu42             4.2.1-3             International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62            6b-16.1             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d          4.8.4-1             NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d           3.12.6-2            Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.28.0-1            Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0           1.2.43-1            PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6           4.4.4-1             The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6             2:1.3.3-3           X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6             2:1.1.1-3           X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2              2.7.7.dfsg-2        GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.5-2           X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.26-3            XSLT processing library - runtime 
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.0-2           X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  xdg-utils            1.0.2+cvs20100307-1 desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3    compression library - runtime

chromium-browser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn  chromium-browser-l10n         <none>     (no description available)

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