---
title: "Font..::.Antialiased Property "
canonical: https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/P_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing_Font_Antialiased.htm
product: "Graphics Mill 5.5 for .NET"
---

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# Font.Antialiased Property 
 
Gets/sets value specifying if text should be antialiased.
 
**Namespace:** [Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/N_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing.htm.md)
 **Assembly:** Aurigma.GraphicsMill (in Aurigma.GraphicsMill.dll)
 
## Syntax
  
```
Public Property Antialiased As Boolean
```
 
```csharp
public bool Antialiased { get; set; }
```
 
### Property Value
The value specifying if text should be antialiased.
 
## Remarks
  
Antialiased text is looking smooth, displayed with high quality. However it works slower than displaying text without antialiasing.
 
Antialiasing can be applied only to full-color bitmaps. When drawing on indexed bitmaps, antialiasing cannot be used by its nature.
 
**Note** 
If the [GdiGraphics](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/T_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing_GdiGraphics.htm.md) was created on the base of the [Bitmap](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/T_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Bitmap.htm.md) which has [Format8bppGrayScale](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/T_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_PixelFormat.htm.md) pixel format, antialiasing will not be applied for text output. The reason of this issue is that GDI does not support grayscale bitmaps. That's why Graphics Mill for .NET represents this image as [Format8bppIndexed](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/T_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_PixelFormat.htm.md) bitmap with grayscale palette.
 
Default value is **true**.
   
## See Also

### Reference

- [Font Class](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/T_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing_Font.htm.md)
- [Aurigma.GraphicsMill.Drawing Namespace](https://www.graphicsmill.com/docs/gm5/N_Aurigma_GraphicsMill_Drawing.htm.md)