[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Font rendering is slightly harder to read (#1066)

[Tom Doan]

After using Geany for almost a day using the Solarized Dark theme, I felt that the text in Geany was slightly harder to read than in Notepad++, an editor I've been using for the past couple years. At first I thought I was imagining things, but after taking screenshots from each editor and comparing them side-by-side with a magnifying glass, I finally figured out why: the font rendering in Geany is ever so slightly darker (or thinner?) than the font rendering in other code editors like Notepad++. Here is the comparison:

![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4110567/15953393/0537111c-2efd-11e6-93d5-92b7fdc33853.png)

Notepad++ is on top and Geany is on the bottom. It is barely noticeable in the image above, but if you zoom in and use the eyedropper tool you will find that the colors in Geany are darker than the ones in Notepad++:

![image](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4110567/15953590/2826f2a8-2eff-11e6-9d51-5e6f1e852653.png)

Maybe I'm just more sensitive to this than others, but after spending a day editing code containing lots of strings using the Solarized Dark theme, I find that the code in Geany is slightly harder to read.

I'm not sure how to categorize this because I suspect it is related to the native font rendering engine that is used in Geany.

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