Why do fonts appear jagged in Chrome?

My fonts seem to appear really jagged and and hard to read in chrome, how can I make them appear smooth? They didn't used to be like this.

9 Answers

The solution that worked for me was

1. Visit URL chrome://flags/
2. Enable "Disable accelerated 2D Canvas"
3. relaunch

In windows 10:

• Go to the windows search, search for "This PC" right click and choose properties
• Go to advanced system settings
• Click the settings button in the performance group
• Check the box for "Smooth edges of screen fonts"
• Restart computer and your fonts will be back to normal

try going here: chrome://flags/#enable-font-cache-scaling either disable or enable this setting (enable-font-cache-scaling) to see if it changes. Chrome seems to suddenly get jagged text inexplicably and this fixed it for me.

Another possible cause:

Remote Desktop (aka RDC, MSTSC) can disable text smoothing per application.

If you are remotely connected to the machine with the font smoothing problem, and other remote applications are working normally, then this should fix it:

1. Disconnect, and re-open the Remote Desktop Connection window.
2. Click Show Options.
3. Click the Experience tab.
4. Choose any setting except "Detect connection quality automatically" in the "Choose your connection speed..." listbox.
5. Check the boxes as appropriate, making sure "Font smoothing" is checked.

Also note, after a remote connection triggers this problem, you may still see the ugly fonts on the computer locally until you restart Chrome (or Windows).

This issue happened to me after a remote RDP session into the workstation. Resolved using the following:

• Opened page chrome://flags/#enable-font-cache-scaling
• Clicked Reset all
• Relaunched Chrome (It also worked in the Microsoft Edge)

After this, the fonts were reset back to the normal view.

Turning on hardware acceleration worked for me.

I found this solution when I was above to do what gvb recommended:

1. Visit URL chrome://flags/
2. Enable Override software rendering list and enables GPU-acceleration on unsupported system configurations

Do note the big red letters as the top: WARNING! EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES AHEAD. I'm gathering though that something about my system isn't supported, but this worked anyhow.

You will probably get all kind of pointless "adjust cleartype" ideas, but in general I would do a clean uninstall of GPU drivers, reinstall and possibly reinstall Chrome as well. More often than not there is a problem with your display drivers.

Disabling / re-enabling all the extensions worked for me. For version 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit), on Windows 10, here are the steps I used:

1. Go Chrome menu
2. Select "More Tools"
3. Select "Extensions"
4. Disable all the extensions
5. Close the page
6. Shut down Chrome
7. Re-start Chrome. Fonts now worked
8. Run steps 1-3.
9. This time, enable all the extensions
10. Run steps 5-7. Fonts still work

If the above don't work, follow the steps above, but enable one extension at a time. I needed to restart the browser to see the effects.

My machine config:

1. Chrome version: 66.0.3359.181 (Official Build) (64-bit)
2. OS: Windows 10 Pro