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pretty bad aspect of rendering a variable font in Chrome on Android

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Hello,
I am not really sure if it belongs here but it has something to do with fonts and google, so maybe.

As I have searched the internet, it seems that there is no way how to disable variable fonts aligning to pixels. Please see the attached video (the font has no hinting included)

[https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DsseqhxZHG2Hw9IB0D11vP8ZQ7nab6r/view](https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DsseqhxZHG2Hw9IB0D11vP8ZQ7nab6r/view)

It seems that there is a certain threshold where the rasterizer's settings are switched. It works well in bigger sizes and bad in smaller (which don't seem that small in the video)

Is there/will be there CSS attribute to disable pixel aligning or to change threshold where settings of the rasterizer are switched? Or is there something I can include in the font so it can tell the rasterizer "Hey, don't align me to pixels or anything close to that" ?

Thanks, Jan

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