JS Canvas Lines

Device Pixel Ratio

Your operating system and browser can provide your code with your “Device Pixel Ratio”. I have read that this number is useful when working with high resolution displays that actually can draw things at half-pixels. Your browser's current DPR is: unknown (refresh with the window on a different screen to update).

The width and height of the canvas below is 100 * DPR. On a high resolution DPR 2 display (like an Apple “retina” display) you should see crisp lines, on a standard DPR 1 display you should see the same blurry lines (screenshots below.)


        canvas.width = 100 * dpr;
        canvas.height = 100 * dpr;
        ctx.scale(dpr, dpr);
      

High Resolution DPR 2 Display:

A screenshot of crisp lines taken on a DPR 2 display

Standard Resolution DPR 1 Display:

A screenshot of blurry lines taken on a DPR 1 display

Windows Scaled 150% DPR 1.5 Display:

A screenshot of lines taken on a DPR 1.5 display

  • Canvases are scaled 4x.