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This looks like really interesting content, but the lack of anti-aliasing in the typeface (which is kind of the point, I guess) makes it very painful on the eye

This looks like really interesting content, but the lack of anti-aliasing in the typeface (which is kind of the point, I guess) makes it very painful on the eyes.

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glimshe 3y ago
That's how people used to work in the 80s, in particular the classic Macs. It was monochrome in the literal sense, a pixel could be either fully black or fully white. You could do dithering but that wouldn't happen here. An entire generation worked this way :).
- mgiampapa 3y ago
  We used fonts designed to work with the dot pitch of CRT displays that made it a little more bearable.
jdougan 3y ago
It is a lot easier to read on the CRT's of the day.
- mgiampapa 3y ago
  It's apparently easier on not-Firefox as well. According to the readme for Chrome / Safari they used some CSS3 to disable font smoothing.
dylan604 3y ago
Did you hover over the image of the Macs?
xp84 3y ago
I’d be ok if the text-encoding errors weren’t so bad. In the BMUG articles, every apostrophe is transformed into like, €™ or something.
- wpearse 3y ago
  Weirdly -- I seem to remember seeing a lot of ,€“ on my old Macintosh ~25 years ago. I think this could be intentional reminder of the "old days", and not a mistake.
masswerk 3y ago
That's actually interesting. Having been used to it once, I find it now to be a refreshing experience. (This may be due to this reminding of times when things used to be more focused. I observe myself approaching this content with a quite different attitude than most things today.)
Someone 3y ago
It indeed is the point. See https://32by32.com/read-me/ https://32by32.com/read-me/ From that page: “I was inspired by Stuart Brown‘s Retro MacOS Theme, and modified it for my use. Brown’s original design magnifies pixel elements 2x, for a post-modern take on the original look-and-feel. For this project, I wanted to see what the original artwork would look like on a 1:1 scale.” I have to zoom in on this page to get the original Mac feel, so I see why one would go for a 2×2 version (the links to Stuart Brown’s setup are dead, unfortunately, so I can’t check them. https://themesinfo.com/retro-mac-os-wpcom-wordpress-blog-template-c85y/fordstowel.com-ya7f https://themesinfo.com/retro-mac-os-wpcom-wordpress-blog-tem... points to http://fordstowel.com/ http://fordstowel.com/, but that seems dead, too)

This looks like really interesting content, but the lack of anti-aliasing in the typeface (which is kind of the point, I guess) makes it very painful on the eyes.

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glimshe 3y ago

That's how people used to work in the 80s, in particular the classic Macs. It was monochrome in the literal sense, a pixel could be either fully black or fully white. You could do dithering but that wouldn't happen here. An entire generation worked this way :).

mgiampapa 3y ago
We used fonts designed to work with the dot pitch of CRT displays that made it a little more bearable.

jdougan 3y ago

It is a lot easier to read on the CRT's of the day.

mgiampapa 3y ago
It's apparently easier on not-Firefox as well. According to the readme for Chrome / Safari they used some CSS3 to disable font smoothing.

dylan604 3y ago

Did you hover over the image of the Macs?

xp84 3y ago

I’d be ok if the text-encoding errors weren’t so bad. In the BMUG articles, every apostrophe is transformed into like, €™ or something.

wpearse 3y ago
Weirdly -- I seem to remember seeing a lot of ,€“ on my old Macintosh ~25 years ago. I think this could be intentional reminder of the "old days", and not a mistake.

masswerk 3y ago

That's actually interesting. Having been used to it once, I find it now to be a refreshing experience. (This may be due to this reminding of times when things used to be more focused. I observe myself approaching this content with a quite different attitude than most things today.)

Someone 3y ago

It indeed is the point. See https://32by32.com/read-me/ https://32by32.com/read-me/ From that page: “I was inspired by Stuart Brown‘s Retro MacOS Theme, and modified it for my use. Brown’s original design magnifies pixel elements 2x, for a post-modern take on the original look-and-feel. For this project, I wanted to see what the original artwork would look like on a 1:1 scale.” I have to zoom in on this page to get the original Mac feel, so I see why one would go for a 2×2 version (the links to Stuart Brown’s setup are dead, unfortunately, so I can’t check them. https://themesinfo.com/retro-mac-os-wpcom-wordpress-blog-template-c85y/fordstowel.com-ya7f https://themesinfo.com/retro-mac-os-wpcom-wordpress-blog-tem... points to http://fordstowel.com/ http://fordstowel.com/, but that seems dead, too)