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jdan / 98.css

98.css

A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

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What it is

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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:02:26 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-22 07:04:27 UTC to 2026-07-24 07:15:29 UTC.

012342020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
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What Hacker News says

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swyx·Jul 10, 2023
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
moritz·Mar 28, 2023
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
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