Does Chrome Use Skia

Chrome uses Skia for nearly all graphics operations, including text rendering. GDI is for the most part only used for native theme rendering; new code should use Skia.

Who created Skia?

CategorySans-serifDesigner(s)Matthew CarterFoundryApple ComputerVariationsCadmus

How does Skia render text?

Skia has a built-in font cache, but it does not know how to actually render font files like TrueType into its cache. For that it relies on the platform to supply an instance of SkScalerContext . This is Skia’s abstract interface for communicating with a font scaler engine.