Windows
Windows
Today we are excited to announce improved font rendering in the latest Canary builds of Microsoft Edge on Windows. We have improved the contrast enhancement and gamma correction to match the quality and clarity of other native Windows applications. Font rendering will also now respect user ClearType Tuner settings when applying text contrast enhancement and gamma correction.
To experiment with different values, run the ClearType Text Tuner (search for "Adjust ClearType text" in the Start menu). Note that Edge must be restarted whenever the settings are changed, and that only the settings for your primary monitor are used.
You can see the effect of the various choices you made in the tuner by viewing a hosted on GitHub. Here is a comparison of the Edge default settings compared to the maximum settings: [caption id="attachment_24754" align="aligncenter" width="624"]
Font rendering at default contrast level (100). Left is ClearType and right is Grayscale.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_24755" align="aligncenter" width="624"]
Font rendering at maximum contrast level (400). Left is ClearType and right is Grayscale.[/caption] Behind the scenes, the registry key
What’s New?
In the latest Canary builds, we now have support for applying the system settings for contrast enhancement and gamma correction of text. You can enable this with theedge://flags#edge-enhance-text-contrast
flag.
KEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DISPLAY1
is modified to a value between 50 and 400.