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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