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Re:Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts by systoll on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:31AM (#17540746)
That's an 'old windows text rendering' thing. You can turn variable fonts on in Firefox, and it behaves like Chrome; but neither one works like that on MacOS.
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Re:Show HN: Font Playground – Play with variable fonts by ygra on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:40AM (#17540808)
All browsers on Windows by now use DirectWrite and Direct2D as far as I know. It's not an inherent limitation of the text rendering API. Yes, GDI always uses pixel-grid fitting, but no browser has used GDI text rendering for a while on Windows (Chrome was the last to switch, IIRC, and before they did, webfonts looked horrible).
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