Chrome/Chromium fonts look bad starting from version 37

Question

After an upgrade from version 36 to 37, the fonts in Google Chrome browser and its opensource variation Chromium look much worse. In the attached screenshot you will the same page viewed with version 37 (left) and 36 (right). The fonts on the left are visible fatter and fuzzier than in Chromium. Any way to fix it?

UPDATE: I googled and found that starting with version 37 Google Chrome comes with a feature DirectWrite with is meant to improve font rendering for Windows users. It seems the font looks in Linux is also affected by this. However, on Linux there seems to be no way to disable this feature using chrome://flags. For now, I downgraded my browsers to a version prior to 37.

Solution

Ok, I am now able to use the newest version of Google Chrome without being annoyed at the fonts. I improved the fonts' visibility buy setting the hinting style to full:

1. Go to System Settings > Application Appearance > Fonts
2. Configure anti-aliasing
3. Set hinting to full.
4. Close the window and reopen them again or log out and in again to see the change across the system.

Comments

[datka]

Thank you for your answer. I tested it. Unfortunately, there was no effect on Chrome/Chromium version 37. I think it's something specific to the browser I also have version 36 installed where the fonts look much better either with embeddedbitmap enabled or disabled.

[usmanayubsh]

If this answer has helped you solve your problem then why didn't you mark it as "accepted"?