{"id":140,"date":"2014-10-14T22:12:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/?p=140"},"modified":"2014-10-14T22:12:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:12:58","slug":"google-chrome-and-font-rendering-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/2014\/10\/14\/google-chrome-and-font-rendering-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chrome and Font Rendering Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since version 36 of 37 or something like that, Google Chrome started rendering texts\u00a0incorrectly. That is, texts would become a bit blocky and just unpleasant to read.<\/p>\n<p>Being the good little technology enthusiast that I am, I usually read all the &#8216;whatsnew&#8217;-documentation that comes with new versions of programs, like with Chrome. And at one point I remembered reading something. Google implemented a new feature called DirectWrite which does who knows what, but should cause your texts to appear even better than they did before.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as it turns out, this little feature caused the problems I was experiencing. So what does one do? Open this URL in Google Chrome:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"chrome:\/\/flags\">chrome:\/\/flags<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And just toggle\u00a0&#8216;Disable DirectWrite&#8217; so that the text reads &#8216;disable&#8217; (you have just enabled the feature to disable that feature). Hurray for overly complicated texts.<\/p>\n<p>Note: I use Google Chrome on a Windows 2008 R2 terminal server. On my laptop with Windows 8 everything is just fine&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since version 36 of 37 or something like that, Google Chrome started rendering texts\u00a0incorrectly. That is, texts would become a bit blocky and just unpleasant to read. Being the good little technology enthusiast that I am, I usually read all the &#8216;whatsnew&#8217;-documentation that comes with new versions of programs,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-problem-solving","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/google-chrome-111.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iplumbing.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}