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Post #1616179

Author
CatBus
Parent topic
Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/1616179/action/topic#1616179
Date created
14-Nov-2024, 3:13 PM

CatBus said:

But there’s always something, and I’ll just come out and say it. I hate the way Chrome renders text on Windows. Firefox does way better at this. I hated Chrome’s text rendering even as I moved the project to Chrome, hoping it would someday get better. There are lots of bugs filed on this, all lumped under a single uber-bug here. The gist is this: Chrome’s text is too light, too thin, too spindly. Bold text looks more like semibold, semibold looks more like medium, medium looks more like regular, and so on. That doesn’t mean that text is bad or unreadable or even unpleasant (some people prefer it this way, and that’s okay), but it does mean that the appearance of the text differs from the intent of the person who chose that font and weight. And for subtitles, that’s important.

FWIW, it looks like this Chrome bug is moving again, which may just end my last gripe about how my subtitles look when rendered using Chromium on Windows. It’s still in “experiment” mode (1% of installs have it enabled), but at least theoretically, it may be enabled by default at some point in the near future.