I know there is a total flood of font rendering related questions on all sorts of sites these days. One of them should provide me with an answer, so you would think. However much I search I cannot seem to find a solution for my problem though.
In google chrome almost all fonts are displayed bold. Well that wouldn't really be the end of the world. What bugs me even more is, that they are rendered very jittery. As in they look sort of distorted.
I have made a picture to show the difference between my firefox and chrome font rendering:
https://i.sstatic.net/hYRh4.png
I simply want to get rid of this. It has been bothering me for a while and no solution I can find on the web helps.
For the record I have uninstalled and reinstalled chrome. Also I have disabled Direct Write in the chrome://flags.
Any help?
This is actually not a rendering problem, but a font loading problem. Firefox shows Arial (a font optimized for rendering at small sizes), while Chrome shows Helvetica (which is not, at least your installed version).
The editor from your screenshot probably asks for the font Helvetica and, if Helvetica is not available, Arial and other sans-serif fonts. I assume you only have the Bold version of Helvetica installed on your computer. It actually should display the Regular version, but it isn't available. Firefox therefore falls back on Arial, while Chrome shows the closest weight you do have: the Bold version.
To fix your problem, you should try uninstalling Helvetica Bold (through Control Panel > Fonts). Note it can also go by other names such as Helvetica Neue, Helvetica LT Std, Neue Helvetica, etc. Don't forget to restart just to be sure. Then Chrome should also show the optimized Arial.
