Great time to shoutout the work of Susan Kare: https://kareprints.com/
1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
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#12Cool. 1-bit hi-resolution emoji would be fire.
What resolution? high enough and they will just appear gray scale. I think the point is for them to be low-res
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#13Love the website, fonts, UI and all of it! It brings back fun memories of my early Mac days.
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#14There’s an awful lot of emdashes in that text.
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#15I was inspired by this site to run emojis through a dithering algorithm ( https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/ )! Nothing beats hand drawn though.
They look good what was your process.
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#16If anyone interested in experimenting with dithering/halftoning algorithms in postscript, take a look at 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/p...
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#17My favorite from his site https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokus...
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#18Pebble 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-font...
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#19Nice! I want a phone theme with this. Do you know any?
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#20There’s an awful lot of emdashes in that text.
I 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?