Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY - Sandhills Community College
Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY - Sandhills Community College
Web Style Guide: TYPOGRAPHY - Sandhills Community College
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<strong>Web</strong> <strong>Style</strong> <strong>Guide</strong>: <strong>TYPOGRAPHY</strong><br />
Anti-aliased type<br />
Antialiasing is a technique widely used in computer graphics to optimize the look of graphics and<br />
typography on the display screen. Antialiasing visually "smoothes" the shapes in graphics and type by<br />
inserting pixels of intermediate colors along boundary edges between colors. In typography, antialiasing<br />
removes the jagged edges of larger type characters. At normal viewing distances antialiasing gives the<br />
impression that the type is rendered at a higher resolution:<br />
Creating antialiased type<br />
Sophisticated image editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop will create antialiased type<br />
automatically, and these "paint" image editors are where most <strong>Web</strong> designers create their graphic<br />
typography. If, however, you have a complex arrangement of typography and graphics (say, for a home<br />
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