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    What's happened to the new font rendering?

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    • thelad
      thelad last edited by

      When Opera updated itself about a week ago, I was impressed by the new smooth and sharp fonts.

      Today the fonts don't look as sharp and smooth, but look identical to Google Chrome's rendering i.e. not as good. What's happened?

      I see this problem on sites like Facebook, Wikipedia etc, with standard sized fonts used on webpages with plenty to read.

      Has Opera "turned off" the newer font rendering by itself?

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Try disabling directwrite on opera:flags and see if it helps.

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        • alobpreis
          alobpreis last edited by admin

          I noticed the same. Check out my thread. In my case the solution was what leocg posted.

          https://forums.opera.com/topic/5777/changed-fonts-in-some-sites

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          • thelad
            thelad last edited by

            I disabled DirectWrite and it made no different at all; I've since re-enabled it.

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            • thelad
              thelad last edited by

              Sorry "difference" not "different". You can't edit posts. 😞

              EDIT Actually you can - I just spotted the "wheel". Wish they just used an "Edit" button lol. 😃

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              • alobpreis
                alobpreis last edited by

                You can edit but only for the following 30 minutes. Then the post is unmodifiable.

                How is the font rendering compared to IE11 or Firefox? In my case, with DirectWrite it looks like IE11; and without it, like Firefox or Opera 24.

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                • thelad
                  thelad last edited by

                  I've noticed that on a few sites the font rendering is better and it's noticeable when you're the right distance from the screen. YouTube for instance looks the same in Chrome as it does in Opera.

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