diff --git a/components/canvas/canvas_paint_task.rs b/components/canvas/canvas_paint_task.rs
index 3cc7abebe3e..c3e8b0fa35f 100644
--- a/components/canvas/canvas_paint_task.rs
+++ b/components/canvas/canvas_paint_task.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ use geom::size::Size2D;
 use layers::platform::surface::NativeSurface;
 use gfx_traits::color;
 use num::ToPrimitive;
+use util::opts;
 use util::task::spawn_named;
 use util::vec::byte_swap;
 
@@ -174,8 +175,14 @@ struct CanvasPaintState<'a> {
 
 impl<'a> CanvasPaintState<'a> {
     fn new() -> CanvasPaintState<'a> {
+        let antialias = if opts::get().enable_canvas_antialiasing {
+            AntialiasMode::Default
+        } else {
+            AntialiasMode::None
+        };
+
         CanvasPaintState {
-            draw_options: DrawOptions::default(),
+            draw_options: DrawOptions::new(1.0, CompositionOp::Over, antialias),
             fill_style: Pattern::Color(ColorPattern::new(color::black())),
             stroke_style: Pattern::Color(ColorPattern::new(color::black())),
             stroke_opts: StrokeOptions::new(1.0, JoinStyle::MiterOrBevel, CapStyle::Butt, 10.0, &[]),
diff --git a/components/util/opts.rs b/components/util/opts.rs
index 0b19f815596..598d27fbd0b 100644
--- a/components/util/opts.rs
+++ b/components/util/opts.rs
@@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ pub struct Opts {
     /// font for layout tests.
     pub enable_text_antialiasing: bool,
 
+    /// If set with --disable-canvas-aa, disable antialiasing on the HTML canvas element.
+    /// Like --disable-text-aa, this is useful for reftests where pixel perfect results are required.
+    pub enable_canvas_antialiasing: bool,
+
     /// True if each step of layout is traced to an external JSON file
     /// for debugging purposes. Settings this implies sequential layout
     /// and paint.
@@ -220,6 +224,7 @@ pub fn default_opts() -> Opts {
         show_debug_parallel_layout: false,
         paint_flashing: false,
         enable_text_antialiasing: false,
+        enable_canvas_antialiasing: false,
         trace_layout: false,
         devtools_port: None,
         webdriver_port: None,
@@ -398,6 +403,7 @@ pub fn from_cmdline_args(args: &[String]) -> bool {
         show_debug_parallel_layout: debug_options.contains(&"show-parallel-layout"),
         paint_flashing: debug_options.contains(&"paint-flashing"),
         enable_text_antialiasing: !debug_options.contains(&"disable-text-aa"),
+        enable_canvas_antialiasing: !debug_options.contains(&"disable-canvas-aa"),
         dump_flow_tree: debug_options.contains(&"dump-flow-tree"),
         dump_display_list: debug_options.contains(&"dump-display-list"),
         dump_display_list_optimized: debug_options.contains(&"dump-display-list-optimized"),
diff --git a/ports/cef/core.rs b/ports/cef/core.rs
index 04a88991838..3f929b84e51 100644
--- a/ports/cef/core.rs
+++ b/ports/cef/core.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ pub extern "C" fn cef_initialize(args: *const cef_main_args_t,
     temp_opts.headless = false;
     temp_opts.hard_fail = false;
     temp_opts.enable_text_antialiasing = true;
+    temp_opts.enable_canvas_antialiasing = true;
     temp_opts.resources_path = None;
     temp_opts.url = None;
     opts::set(temp_opts);
diff --git a/tests/reftest.rs b/tests/reftest.rs
index b0592bb2e8e..9aaf8e68caf 100644
--- a/tests/reftest.rs
+++ b/tests/reftest.rs
@@ -250,9 +250,9 @@ fn capture(reftest: &Reftest, side: usize) -> (u32, u32, Vec<u8>) {
         .stdout(Stdio::null())
         .stderr(Stdio::null())
         .args(&reftest.servo_args[..])
-        // Allows pixel perfect rendering of Ahem font for reftests.
+        // Allows pixel perfect rendering of Ahem font and the HTML canvas for reftests.
         .arg("-Z")
-        .arg("disable-text-aa")
+        .arg("disable-text-aa,disable-canvas-aa")
         .args(&["-f", "-o"])
         .arg(&png_filename)
         .arg(&{
diff --git a/tests/wpt/harness/wptrunner/executors/executorservo.py b/tests/wpt/harness/wptrunner/executors/executorservo.py
index 9de859b37e4..3dba844dc32 100644
--- a/tests/wpt/harness/wptrunner/executors/executorservo.py
+++ b/tests/wpt/harness/wptrunner/executors/executorservo.py
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ class ServoRefTestExecutor(ProcessTestExecutor):
 
         with TempFilename(self.tempdir) as output_path:
             self.command = [self.binary, "--cpu", "--hard-fail", "--exit",
-                            "-Z", "disable-text-aa", "--output=%s" % output_path,
+                            "-Z", "disable-text-aa,disable-canvas-aa", "--output=%s" % output_path,
                             full_url]
 
             env = os.environ.copy()