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Chrome Windows Font Rendering

Users complain about poor, blurry, or unreadable font rendering on websites specifically in Chrome on Windows, with some suggesting browser switches, extensions, or reloads as fixes.

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Sample Comments

Kiro • Dec 17, 2013 • View on HN

What's up with the font? It looks like a disaster on Chrome @ Windows.

ryeguy • Jun 4, 2013 • View on HN

Does this font render horribly for anyone else? On windows with chrome here.

wz1000 • Feb 25, 2015 • View on HN

I don't see anything wrong with the font rendering on that.

na85 • Apr 7, 2018 • View on HN

Ah okay, I have rendering issues with that font.

shakeel_mohamed • Mar 11, 2014 • View on HN

I think there's something funky with Chrome and font rendering. Reload the page and it should be fine

swah • May 7, 2013 • View on HN

The font is kinda awful here on Chrome/Win7.

PeterisP • May 20, 2013 • View on HN

The font is completely unreadable on win/chrome (for example, 'e' has the horizontal line missing at default font size).

xSwag • Aug 8, 2013 • View on HN

What's up with your font rendering?

dublinben • Sep 3, 2014 • View on HN

Use Firefox? Chrome has bad font rendering consistently, it's nothing you've done.

malermeister • Jan 29, 2022 • View on HN

Is the font rendering awful for anyone else? Firefox on Windows fwiw