[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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