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They should have standardized the font rendering for canvas. For those rare graphs using canvas i can live without Cleartype and only use normal anti aliasing, and with modern high DPI displays you hardly even need that in the first place anyway.

I mean, one of the major reasons for using canvas over DOM is to get pixel perfect placement of things, like text connecting to an arrow. If your fonts suddenly change size that won't work anymore. SVG has the same problem, on some computers with slightly larger letter spacing a line might become too long so it wraps and become two lines, totally spoiling the desired diagram.



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