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Vector 2022 body text doesn't use subpixel rendering, at least on Windows. This makes it look look less crisp / more blurry on standard DPI screens. Someone has even complained that the text is "too faded", and I think this is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Vector_2022_text_is_too_light Many CSS properties disable it as a side-effect, including 'animation' and 'opacity' (even when there's no animation and 100% opacity – just using the property causes this). I haven't figured out what is causing it in Vector. This is my pet peeve, and I complained about this problem before in various products: T146339 T179988 T269145#6661061 (some of those reports may have better explanations). Screenshots: | Old Vector | New Vector | | -- | -- | {F36340219} | {F36340221} Fragment with 800% zoom to illustrate: | Old Vector | {F36340223 size=full} | -- | New Vector | {F36340225 size=full} | --

Vector 2022 body text doesn't use subpixel rendering, at least on Windows. This makes it look look less crisp / more blurry on standard DPI screens. Someone has even complained that the text is "too faded", and I think this is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Vector_2022_text_is_too_light Many CSS properties disable it as a side-effect, including 'animation' and 'opacity' (even when there's no animation and 100% opacity – just using the property causes this). I haven't figured out what is causing it in Vector. This is my pet peeve, and I complained about this problem before in various products: T146339 T179988 T269145#6661061 (some of those reports may have better explanations). Screenshots: | Old Vector | New Vector | | -- | -- | {F36340219} | {F36340221} If you aren't familiar with this technique: subpixel rendering produces an effect on your screen that looks kind of like this, with crisper, narrower lines at the expense of some color fringing: | Old Vector | {F36428642 size=full} | -- | New Vector | {F36428640 size=full} | -- (It looks better in practice than in my illustration here, I'm not sure how to accurately reproduce it.)

Vector 2022 body text doesn't use subpixel rendering, at least on Windows. This makes it look look less crisp / more blurry on standard DPI screens. Someone has even complained that the text is "too faded", and I think this is why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#Vector_2022_text_is_too_light Many CSS properties disable it as a side-effect, including 'animation' and 'opacity' (even when there's no animation and 100% opacity – just using the property causes this). I haven't figured out what is causing it in Vector. This is my pet peeve, and I complained about this problem before in various products: T146339 T179988 T269145#6661061 (some of those reports may have better explanations). Screenshots: | Old Vector | New Vector | | -- | -- | {F36340219} | {F36340221} Fragment with 800% zoom to illustrateIf you aren't familiar with this technique: subpixel rendering produces an effect on your screen that looks kind of like this, with crisper, narrower lines at the expense of some color fringing: | Old Vector | {F36340223428642 size=full} | -- | New Vector | {F36340225428640 size=full} | -- (It looks better in practice than in my illustration here, I'm not sure how to accurately reproduce it.)