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jhg
It's clearly an overkill, but gotta admire the approach.
DarkShikari
Kind of loses its touch when it's downscaled badly, resulting in ugly aliasing along the diagonal line in the actual resulting layout.
petercooper
Anyone fancy explaining? :-)
cadwag
Granted, I'm not a PS/InDesign/etc pro, but I feel the same way: just not sure what I'm looking at here.

Can someone please explain what this is?

petercooper
See, I am, and I'm still not getting what the story is here especially in relation to "pixel perfect." The guides demonstrate an attention to detail in getting a good corner, but that's nothing to do with the final pixel rendering as such.. really just good Illustrator path building.
bozmac
This is one of the great examples of the difference between a graphic designer that charges $200 per hour and your friend's cousin who can do the entire project for $20.
waterlesscloud
What's the benefit to me as the user though? It's neat, but does it have any actual effect on anything?
bozmac
There might be none but that's not really the point now, is it? It's all about the quality of work.
mieses
this is about design documentation, right? or is there something particularly interesting about the design itself?
huhtenberg
I'm guessing it's about pouring a lot of work into 3 pixels worth of an end-user deliverable, i.e. not cutting corners and such.
ThomPete
I think it has to do with how to get perfect pixel in illustrator. If you just draw a line even if you have your rulers set to pixel you will get anti-aliasing once you render it in for instance photoshop. So what you do is that you offset it in points as far as I can remember by .5pt that way PS will render it nicely.

Having said that I still don't know why someone thought of this to be HN worthy it's a rather old problem with a rather old solution.

ThomPete
this could also just be some "clever" marketing trick I guess. Given that if you go to the front you can sign-up.