# Design resolution

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/design-resolution/280125
**Category:** design
**Created:** [January 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/design-resolution/280125 "2009-01-23T01:13:43Z")
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### Author: ![saxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@saxx](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/saxx)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/design-resolution/280125/1 "2009-01-23T01:13:43Z")

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> **[Display resolution](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_resolution)**
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> The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor or display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed. It can be an ambiguous term especially as the displayed resolution is controlled by different factors in cathode ray tube (CRT) displays, flat-panel displays (including liquid-crystal displays) and projection displays using fixed picture-element (pixel) arrays.
> It is usually quoted as width × height, with the units in pixels...

This is a noob question i know, but when you’re designing for web. The resolution i should be anticipating is 768 1024, right?. But i don’t want to leave the higher resolutions in the dark. So what’s the highest i should design for. Anybody know?

> [@wiki](#):
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> HDTV: 1080p (1920\*1080 progressive scan)

I hope to god there is no one using their hdtv to browse the interwebz ☹