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Anti-Aliasing and Font Smoothing

Anti-aliasing or "font smoothing" is a process to make your images look smooth and your text more readable online.
Is Anti-Aliasing Important to You - Is Font Smoothing Important
Anti-aliasing used to be a huge deal for Web designers. There were two sides to the issue - those who felt it was extremely important to do on all fonts and GIF images and those who felt that it caused more problems than it solved. But the issue seems to be dead now. What do you think? Is anti-aliasing a thing of the past?
anti-aliasing
A definition of the term anti-aliasing as it applies to Web pages and Web page design.
Basics of Anti-aliasing
You might not know what that check box in Photoshop does, but it can have very strong consequences for a Web site depending upon what you decide to do with it.
Antialiasing, Transparency, and the World Wide Web
This tutorial covers both anti-aliasing and transparency. These are important in combination, because if anti-aliased poorly, transparent images will appear to have a halo.
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