Re:The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our e...
by userbinator on Saturday March 26, 2016 @08:31PM
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I would have thought that text rendering would be top priority from a UX perspective given that reading text constitutes such a major part of browsing the web.
The problem, as demonstrated by your example and the replies it's generated, is that people have different preferences on text rendering.
Of your 3 samples I think IE is the best and Chrome's is the worst, with FF inbetween. More precisely, I'd be OK with reading text rendered the first way indefinitely (although I'd want to change it), the second one I could probably stand for a few minutes, and the last one I'd want to stop looking at as quickly as possible, because of how blurry it looks.
The problem, as demonstrated by your example and the replies it's generated, is that people have different preferences on text rendering.
Of your 3 samples I think IE is the best and Chrome's is the worst, with FF inbetween. More precisely, I'd be OK with reading text rendered the first way indefinitely (although I'd want to change it), the second one I could probably stand for a few minutes, and the last one I'd want to stop looking at as quickly as possible, because of how blurry it looks.
This is what I normally use:
http://imgur.com/T3ihEqw
Sharp, pure non-antialiased text. I can read text like that all day without feeling like my eyes are going out of focus.