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Design Adobe Illustrator for Web Design Creating a Wireframe Adding Type

Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
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Posted by Aaron Selonke
Aaron Selonke
10,323 Points

Is a Pixel in Illustrator the same as one pixel in a CSS document displayed on the browser?

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Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
Treehouse Moderator 145,860 Points

Hey Aaron,

Short Answer: Yes. A pixel is a pixel regardless of where in design you are using the term.

The longer answer will involve technical specs for the displays being used to display the 'pixels.' While the pixel itself is the same, the visual representation of the pixel will be determined by the screen resolution and color depth. The same image will look dramatically different if you change your resolution to 640x480 as compared to a resolution of 1920x1080. Also an image displayed with a 8-bit color depth will also be very different than if show with a 32-bit color.

So, while a pixel is the same, its display can be very different.

Hope this clears it up for you. Keep coding! :)