[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #55596: Should font-smoothing antialising setting in 2022 default theme be enabled?

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#55596: Should font-smoothing antialising setting in 2022 default theme be enabled?
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 Reporter:  happysadhu     |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Bundled Theme  |    Version:
 Severity:  normal         |   Keywords:
  Focuses:                 |
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 Currently, at the top of 2022's style.css, font-smoothing is enabled by
 default by the following:

 body {-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;-webkit-font-smoothing:
 antialiased; }

 Critics of such anti-aliasing font smoothing say that it actually degrades
 the clarity of fonts on computer screens, particularly dark text on a
 light background. It switches rendering from subpixel-rendering to pixel
 level rendering:
 https://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/
 https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1170

 Perhaps, font-smoothing should not be enabled by default in the default
 wordpress theme.

 Cheers, Sam

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