Microsoft Edge Fixes Washed-Out Text Rendering in Chromium
2025-02-13
After migrating to the Chromium rendering engine, users reported that text in Microsoft Edge appeared "washed out" and inconsistent with other parts of Windows. Investigation revealed that Skia's text contrast and gamma settings differed from the previous DirectWrite engine and didn't read Windows ClearType Tuner settings. The Edge team collaborated with the Google Chrome team, conducting user research to determine a better default text contrast value. A value of 1.0 was found to closely match the pre-Chromium Edge rendering and look consistent with other native Windows applications. This fix is now available in Chrome 132 and later.