Add feature to disable Anti-Aliasing entirely

Hey @pcote, thanks for the feedback and apologies for the delayed reply!

We’ll pass this idea onto our team for future consideration.

Agree 100% but my concern is with font fidelity on Pixel based fonts.

Pixel fonts are very important to be crisp. Currently not being able to turn AA off means any work with pixel fonts means it has to be done in other software!

This a bump to this request. I use figma to design ESL-templates (Electronic Shelve Label). These are e-ink devices without anti-aliasing.  Direct export to 8bit gif or png would be great.

It's a shame that over a year has passed, and the situation is still the same.

Same here. I design for e-ink displays with limited color support (usually three or four), and the ability to disable anti-aliasing would be an essential feature.

​@djv 

​@Salavat Abdullin ​@Robert Grund ​@begreen ​@Eunmac ​@pcote I’m curious if our export settings are meeting your needs here? Under the more menu, you can switch from Detailed to Basic. In my experience, it seems to be what y’all are looking for. 

@Rogie_King Thanks for the reply! I wasn't aware of that function, so I tested it straight away — unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm still getting anti-aliasing with these settings (see left). What I'm after is that hard pixel effect with font hinting. The preview on the right was forced in Photoshop (indexed color), but it doesn't accurately represent actual e-ink — some of the finer details in the fonts get lost.

​@Rogie_King Thank you for the reply, but “anti-aliasing” is not the same as “bicubic resampling”. Here you can see the comparison. What we need is an option to deactivate anti-aliasing.