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Charcoal fits the spirit of the hiDPI remake better to my eyes too. But as we're on 'spirit' and pedantry, the unaligned popup selectors in the demo look off to

• dingdingdang 3y ago
  The unaligned popup selectors scared me too... hope it won't be added to "get off my lawn"-faq ;)
• buserror 3y ago
  Yes there are a few tweaks to make -- I worked in 'passes' in the code, and my last 'pass' at the menus was a little while ago, normally I go and fix the little nags as I go along. Last (big) pass was the text editor, which isn't totally finished and polished but I had to release something for the deadline ;-)
  • pvg 3y ago
    I found it fascinating that my brain readily accepts this as macOS Classic UI, even though, as you say, it's a kind of System 7++ - a neat trick to have pulled off. Then after a bit it starts nitpicking on alignment and spacing unasked, like some weird Apple Cult Manchurian Candidate.
• queuebert 3y ago
  Maybe I'm weird, but I feel like that style of GUI design with OS 8 and 9 were the pinnacle of GUI styling. Well, maybe BeOS deserves mention as well. But you could put young children in front of a Mac at school, and they'd figure out how to do everything they needed to do without much help and with no distraction.