Description of the issue: I built my first PC, if it matters, and it works perfectly fine, however when it comes to Brave or Google Chrome I saw that text sometime looks extremely disruptive. I examined characters and dived into problem to discover it’s most likely a text color fringing (further called TCF) that outlines characters with colored subpixels and makes them look too sharp/distinctive. Though I suspect it also colors them sometimes with black outline. Please, help, I’m starting seeing TCF even on my old 300 DPI phone where fonts are rendered perfectly.
How can this issue be reproduced?
- Have ASUS TUF Gaming VG27AQL3A monitor in fresh PC build.
- In Windows 11 go in next settings tabs: System > Display.
- Have scale 100%, 2560x1440p and adjust ClearType to your liking.
- Open Brave.
- Look at how ugly it is. Download images or open them in new tabs and zoom into them to see colored pixels, though screenshot can’t express how bad it is.
Image 1. brave://flags/ website
Image 2. Brave search bar
Image 3. Message in DeepSeek. Same TCF occurs in ChatGPT.
Expected result: Clear characters with minimal or non-existing TCF like in Firefox Wikipedia. Download image or open it in new tab and zoom in it to see no colored subpixels.
Brave Version( check About Brave): 1.80.115
Additional Information:
Sometimes TCF can be prominent in headings or titles of sections on websites. Also white theme seems to reduce effects of color fringed text but this theme is disruptive itself so don’t consider it. Changing FontSmoothing, FontSmoothingOrientation, FontSmoothingType in regedit didn’t help.
Browsers and websites having minimal or absent TCF that doesn’t cause disruption:
- Firefox.
- Brave PDF files.
- Brave Google Docs documents.
- Brave YouTube.
- Brave Wikipedia.