Something about chrome DIY’ing font rendering instead of using the platform’s when I last looked into this
Even Edge font rendering started looking way better — only after they switched away from chrome’s diy font rendering.
(Aside: IMO chrome on android is good but all others are bad at font rendering. Probably uses platform rendering on Android)
This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct". It goes back to the old debate on Mac vs. Windows font rendering -- do you like pixel alignment or do you like letterform accuracy? There's no right answer.
Kind of enough, but...
> This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct".
"Correct" for the purposes of this discussion could be the normal OS rendering, and deviation from that is what would be "off"-ness.
How?!
This is how example.com renders: https://i.imgur.com/MFo7ACg.png
Pay attention to how the word "illustrative" renders: https://i.imgur.com/lFJIEZG.png
See e.g. the boldness on e.g. the first "l"? Firefox's clearly has two very dark vertical strokes in adjacent pixels -- one black, one dark blue right next to it. Its rendering is substantially bolder than Windows's. I can understand if you personally prefer that, but how can you claim they look the same?!