electron/libchromiumcontent

Subpixel font rendering with freetype 2.8.1

kolya-ay opened this issue · 4 comments

kolya-ay commented

With updated libfreetype fonts look "dirty" and painful to read due background artifacts. Here is a screenshot from unmodified electron-quick-start:

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The issue affects all the Linux users with new version of the library. See: atom/atom#15737, microsoft/vscode#35675.

It seems to be upstream Skia issue. The fix could probably be backported from newer Chromium versions.

MarshallOfSound commented

Backporting the Skia patch to fix this:

  • 1.6.x: #386
  • 1.7.x: #385
  • 1.8.x: Coming Soon
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bhack commented

I hope that could be backported also on different Electron releases.

ExecutorElassus commented

I'd suggest modifying the title to "freetype >2.8", as this is also broken when using freetype-2.9. Incidentally, though I use electron-1.6, this is still broken on my system; is this part of the regular electron release, or do I need to patch manually?

MarshallOfSound commented

Hey there,

It's been a long time coming but the libchromiumcontent repository is being archived as it is no longer used in the Electron build system (🎉 this is a good thing).

If your issue is still relevant to Electron in it's current build system (please verify first) then you should probably raise a similar issue on electron/electron.

Thanks 😄