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21st July 2014, 09:03	#1
Stefan Mileschin [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2010 Location: Romania Posts: 153,575	Web fonts will soon look better in Chrome For all of Google Chrome's advantages, its sub-par rendering of web fonts has always been a sore point. With the release of Chrome 37, however, that's about to change. This post on the Chromium blog reveals that DirectWrite support is part of Chrome 37. DirectWrite is a DirectX application programming interface (API) that supports "high-quality text rendering, resolution-independent outline fonts, and full Unicode text and layout support," according to Microsoft's reference page . Previous versions of Chrome have ... http://techreport.com/news/26796/web...tter-in-chrome

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