Images on web pages are made of square blocks or pixels, and so it can be difficult for a monitor to display really smooth curves. Anti-aliasing or font smoothing is a way of making those curves appear smoother on a monitor.

Read the full article: Font Smoothing and Anti-Alias on Web Images

• What do you Think? Is Font Smoothing Still Important?
• Did You Know? - All Web Graphics are Square
• CSS Style Property: font-smooth
• Definition of the term anti-aliasing

Learn Why Images Are Smooth on Web Pages originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Monday, June 27th, 2011 at 05:45:00.

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