Microsoft Edge's transition to Chromium in 2020 revealed text rendering inconsistencies on Windows, leading to extensive research and experimentation with text contrast values. The collaboration between Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome teams resulted in improved text rendering defaults for all Chromium-based browsers on Windows, implementing a contrast value of 1.0 to match native Windows applications.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/better-text-rendering-in-chromium-based-browsers-on-windows

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