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		alternatetwo on Feb 13, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers o... It most certainly uses GDI for Verdana. Firefox tried to disable that by overwriting the previous default setting for gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families and gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size, but restoring them fixed that. Also this is not important. What's important is that DirectWrite does not render this font correctly, if you compare it with LibreOffice or Word.

e4m2 on Feb 13, 2025 [–]

It just uses GDI_CLASSIC for DWRITE_MEASURING_MODE [1] and DWRITE_RENDERING_MODE [2] in that case. No actual GDI in sight.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dcommon/...

[2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/dwrite/n...

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