In the computing world, an aliased font means "blocky" and/or "non-smoothed"; there are some people to this day who prefer reading web pages with fonts rendered in this fashion.

A quick example:

Anti-aliased ("smoothed")

Aliased ("blocky")

Windows and Linux do offer the ability to turn off anti-aliasing for all rendered fonts, however there are those who would prefer to have aliased fonts only in the browser for that retro look.

Is this possible? With Windows 7 and Firefox and the Anti-Aliasing Tuner it is.

Before continuing, no this does not work with XP. You need Windows 7 for it.

Install the latest Firefox and the Anti-Aliasing Tuner. After that, go to Firefox add-ons, and choose the options for the tuner:

Choose modes as "Aliased" twice for both Small Font and Large Font:

"Apply", "Close" and you’re good to go. All fonts in just Firefox for menus and web content (with the exception of Flash-rendered text) will be aliased/"blocky". Browser restart is not required, and yes, you can change the font rendering style at whim whenever you feel like it.

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