Aligning your artwork to the pixel grid

In this movie, I'll show you how to align your artwork to the pixel grid, and…why it's so very important to do so…when you are creating web graphics in Illustrator.…I have two versions of this document open, one called editabletime.ai.…It contains editable type, set in the font's Adobe…(UNKNOWN)…Pro, first standard, and news gothic.…If you don't have those fonts installed on your…system, you may prefer to work inside this document, which…is called typeasoutlines.ai, and in keeping with the document's name,…all of the text has been converted to path outlines.…Alright, I'm going to switch back to the editabletype.ai document.…

And I'm going to zoom in on the word BOO here by…ctrl + spacebar or cmd + spacebar, clicking on it a few times.…And this is the word BOO…in the first art board.…And these are path outlines by the way, this is not text.…So I actually drew the word as a combination of path outlines.…And because we're working with vector art, everything looks nice and smooth…and sharp with the exception of the pixel based image in the background.…