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98.css

A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

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Beautiful work, thanks so much :) I'll keep poking at fonts and see what I can learn https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/10 I love that we arrived at the ~same solution using…

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In 98.css
Looks like it's a special font provided by https://github.com/jdan/98.css (Which has come a long way in the past couple of years, despite still being 0.1.x) Although there is a CSS rule for manipulating how fonts are anti-aliased, it was never standardized, and Firefox doesn't implement the vital no-smoothing option: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth Maybe with enough retro revivals it will receive attention.
In Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
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ps://github.com/ritenv/retro-desktop https://github.com/RoelN/c64css3 https://github.com/sakofchit/system.css https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/ Cool! Can someone please collect this into a github page so I can find it again in the future? I know I'm being lazy and should do it myself, but I'd rather someone with more visibility do it. [EDIT: Added the actual list to my comment so I can find it again in the future]
In 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
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In 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
I collect niche Operating System CSS! - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.css): A Windows 98 inspired framework for building faithful recreations of old UIs. - [Office 97 clipart in svg format](https://archive.org/details/mso97clipart) - [XP.css](https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css): A Windows XP inspired framework for building faithful recreations of operating system GUIs. An extension of 98.css. - [7.css](https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/) - [System.css](https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/) Retro Apple-inspired UI - [Puppertino](https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino) meant to mimic the look of macOS. [demo](https://codedgar.github.io/Puppertino/) - [Commodore 64 CSS](http://pixelambacht.nl/2013/css3-c64/) - DOS: [BOOTSTRA.386](https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386): A vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme -
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[a2k](https://a2000-docs.netlify.app/): A Windows 2000 inspired web component library more at https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy/tree/master
In Show HN: React95 – A React components library recreating the look of Windows 95
Thank you. So my guess is the 1.5 display scaling plays a role here— there is a penalty to that, since it's not mapping pixels 1:1.[1] So macOS has to do some kind of anti-aliasing? I'm of course not the first to find out,[2] but it's probably not advisable to try to make raster fonts work as webfonts nowadays. There is no reliable way to disable anti-aliasing. Even if there were, one would be very limited in terms of type sizes, which becomes moot because of displays running with odd scaling… and so on. [1]: https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/what-is-display-s... [2]: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/125
In Smalltalk Type
In Hacker News stylized as a retro 90s macOS desktop
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In Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0
I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css](https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css](https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css](https://latex.now.sh/) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.css): A Windows 98 inspired framework for building faithful recreations of old UIs. - [Office 97 clipart in svg format](https://archive.org/details/mso97clipart) - [XP.css](https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css): A Windows XP inspired framework for building faithful recreations of operating system GUIs. An extension of 98.css. - [7.css](https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/) - [System.css](https://sakofchit.github.io/syste
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m.css/) Retro Apple-inspired UI - [Commodore 64 CSS](http://pixelambacht.nl/2013/css3-c64/) - DOS: [BOOTSTRA.386](https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386): A vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme - [Text UI CSS](https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss): bios like UI's - [New Dawn](https://github.com/npjg/new-dawn): A mac classic After Dark inspired stylesheet. - [Geocities Bootstrap theme](https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/) - more https://dev.to/iainfreestone/10-resources-for-recreating-old...
In System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces
Yep, we deliberately didn't convert the full set of glyphs from each of the fonts we support, mostly just because it was quite laborious (not to mention CPU time-consuming) to generate our relatively small range of weights, sizes, and font families as-is, so missing ligatures are a known issue. If it's really illegible, i wonder if there isn't some other rendering bug happening – we admittedly didn't do much testing other than Chrome/Safari/Firefox on latest macOS. And i've seen some pretty weird glitches with this kind of custom font, e.g., https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/13. If something is truly that broken feel free to hit us up at webmaster@ with a screenshot, we'd appreciate the bug reports!
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