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by graup 1809 days ago
This turned out to be more interesting than I thought. Gradients and blurs are common in UI design. The Figma app actually does blurs wrong, while Chrome/CSS renders them correctly. This is good to know.
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Same here. Useful article, for sure. It's funny most of us have seen, even used, done of this terminology without having a clear idea what it actually means.

I am going to disagree with that chrome, or any browser, for that matter, renders blurs correctly.

In fact, I'd go as far as say that CSS blur filters are embarrassingly low quality. One of these days I am going to finally say fuck it just use canvas on top of my whatever I have to blur.

What I meant was that at least CSS blurs in Chrome don't have that "dark" effect that you get from poor color management. https://twitter.com/graycoding/status/1411679670001569793
From the screenshot, it looks like a compositing issue. I'm guessing Figma does compositing in gamma space while Chrome does it in linear space.