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1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
- hnisfrauds 4mo ago[dead]
- andsoitis 4mo agoCool. 1-bit hi-resolution emoji would be fire.
- socalgal2 4mo agoWhat resolution? high enough and they will just appear gray scale. I think the point is for them to be low-res
- trollbridge 4mo agoSome things are just plain beautiful. I would gladly use this as an emoji set (alongside Chicago or Monaco).
- mrhottakes 4mo agoThis has me feeling nostalgic for Hypercard. Nice work!
- srean 4mo agoMy favorite from his site https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokusais-the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/ https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokus...
- justsomehnguy 4mo agoBTW you can print it on a transparent film and use any coloured paper as a background layer or multiple with a different offsets and grade. With a proper combo o depth you can get a very nice result.
- srean 4mo agoHey that's such a nice idea, of multiple layers. Thanks to your idea, now I am imagining printing different layers of foreground and background on glass and stacking them with spacers for parallax.
- HelloUsername 4mo agoDiscussed on 08-may-2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35866283 72 comments 22-apr-2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863570 93 comments
- mrpeek 4mo agoNice! I want a phone theme with this. Do you know any?
- mathgladiator 4mo agoAwesome. I recently got a play.date device, so im getting into 1 bit pixel art for a game i am building. I am using as a forcing function 5o avoid the multitudes of rabbit holes possible with games. It is so refreshing!
- willmeyers 4mo agoI was inspired by this site to run emojis through a dithering algorithm (https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/ https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/)! Nothing beats hand drawn though.
- andrewstuart 4mo agoThey look good what was your process.
- willmeyers 4mo agoSorry for taking so long to get back to you. Basically I extracted the emojis from my Mac's system font. From there I downscaled them to 64x64 pixels and made them grayscale. With this set of images I experimented with a few different algorithms. I ended up settling for just a regular ordered dithering (Bayer). But! It still didn't look that good. So what I ended up doing was normalizing the darks and lights for each emoji. This was because some emojis are lighter and darker than others. I wanted to create a uniform appearance for all of them. So the process was (1) get emojis. (2) downscale + grayscale. (3) normalize tone. (4) dither. (5) then upscale
- 716dpl 4mo agoGreat time to shoutout the work of Susan Kare: https://kareprints.com/ https://kareprints.com/
- SpyCoder77 4mo agoShe was the one to do the original icons for the Macintosh
- StacyC 4mo agoLove the website, fonts, UI and all of it! It brings back fun memories of my early Mac days.
- guff_se 4mo agoThere’s an awful lot of emdashes in that text.
- dbalatero 4mo agoI type the emdash a lot myself; how do you know the author doesn't as well? The copy is simple and readable so even if it is AI, who cares?
- krupan 4mo agoI hate LLMs too, but these comments are getting old. Those of us from a certain generation (who grew up using computers that this website is mimicking) were taught in our "keyboarding" classes to hit - twice to type a hyphen in the WordPerfect word processor. Guess where LLMs learned to type? By reading everything we old people wrote
- ValdikSS 4mo agoIf anyone interested in experimenting with dithering/halftoning algorithms in postscript, take a look at https://printserver.ink/blog/ghostscript-halftone/ https://printserver.ink/blog/ghostscript-halftone/ You can implement it in PostScript, and there are many examples (with the PostScript code) in PDF specification (pages 303-307): https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/pdfstandards/pdf/PDF32000_2008.pdf https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/p...
- wlesieutre 4mo agoPebble has a set of black and white emojis to go with their OS's visual language. Lots missing, but the ones they have are nicely readable for watch notification purposes. Not as detailed as these, and using 90/45 degree angles in keeping with the rest of their graphics. https://developer.rebble.io/guides/app-resources/system-fonts/#using-emoji-fonts https://developer.rebble.io/guides/app-resources/system-font...
- krupan 4mo agoI was unprepared for the wave of nostalgia that hit me when I went to the hos website. Grandpa's Mac computer was so cool!!
- SpyCoder77 4mo agoOn mobile if you zoom in the background gives you a headache
- semolino 4mo agoThe page would benefit from image-rendering: pixelated; in the CSS which would probably(?) prevent the headache-inducing effect, which I'm guessing comes from the hard edges of the background image tiling contrasted with the bilinear upscale blur. The site looks like it was abandoned in 2023, however.
- SpyCoder77 4mo agoThe rendering on this blank character is wrong, it is visible
- kristianp 4mo agoThe little crosses around the em-dashes? If I comment out the BitGeneva12 font in the css body they go away.
- bni 4mo agoAnother idea would be to make emojis that could be used as Amiga Workbench 1.3 icons. The Blue, white, orange and black kind.
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- ayaros 4mo agoI did play with adding the 1-bit NTT Docomo emojis, as well as the 1998 Softbank emojis, into LisaGUI (my 1-bit Lisa-themed web OS). The glyphs are at most 12 pixels squared, and fit comfortably with the existing Lisa typefaces I've added so far (although they appear vertically stretched when viewed in a 2:3 pixel aspect ratio). They are still not included and won't be until I devote some time to sorting out the slightly nightmarish shitshow that is parsing unicode emoji character sequences.