Smooth borders with a box-shadow

A shadow is one way of making a component stand out from its background. However, you might want to add a border when the component and the background share the same colour. If you use a static border colour, the touch point between the shadow and the border might have an undesired effect.

I wrote a short article explaining how you can use a shadow to draw the border to get a crisp result.

Read: The article

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