This guide explains how hand-placed anti-aliasing smooths curves and edges on the pixel grid by choosing intermediate colors based on perceived value (luminance), not simple averaging. It covers fixing jaggies, stacked AA length, avoiding banding and parallel tangents, simulating line weight, selective outlining (sel-out), and subpixel animation for small sprites—plus when AA adds noise and should be skipped.
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