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1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Post by lelandfe »

wesleychen wrote: post #27
calibas wrote: post #24

When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome. It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the sit…

It's probably due to anti-aliasing. A similar thing happens on some versions of Windows with ClearType turned on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

Webkit browsers have `-webkit-font-smoothing: none`. Does an equivalent exist for FF?

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Post by kalleboo »

lmm wrote: post #13
statico wrote: post #3

This site design is one of the best retro Mac site designs I've seen. The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays. If anyone's interested, there's an active HyperCard community with some fun projects. There's a Discord server, too. https://hypercard.org/ I found that community through the Avara community, a port of the classic Mac multiplayer networked mech…

> The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays. It has some weird rainbow effect to it on mine, and the background flickers when I scroll.

This seems to be because Firefox has no way to disable text antialiasing (whereas Safari and Chrome support -webkit-font-smoothing), so Firefox is trying to antialias a pixel font which just looks weird

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Post by waboremo »

MivLives wrote: post #25
calibas wrote: post #24

When viewing the site in Firefox, the font in the paragraphs has a very subtle rainbow effect. Here's a screenshot of it zoomed in: https://i.imgur.com/ir0MmPq.png I was wondering how they achieved that effect, but it doesn't seem intentional. It's not part of the CSS, and I only see it in FF, doesn't happen in Chrome. It goes away if I switch fonts, it looks like it's some weird result of how Firefox renders the sit…

I assumed this was intentional to sorta look weird and retro. Sorta wild it's just Firefox messing it up.

It's not just Firefox, it's reproducible on Chromium browsers on Windows (10) as well.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

#35

Post by golph »

lelandfe wrote: post #31
wesleychen wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's probably due to anti-aliasing. A similar thing happens on some versions of Windows with ClearType turned on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

Webkit browsers have `-webkit-font-smoothing: none`. Does an equivalent exist for FF?

font-smooth: never Should be working on Firefox.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Post by lmm »

kalleboo wrote: post #32
lmm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays. It has some weird rainbow effect to it on mine, and the background flickers when I scroll.

This seems to be because Firefox has no way to disable text antialiasing (whereas Safari and Chrome support -webkit-font-smoothing), so Firefox is trying to antialias a pixel font which just looks weird

Nope, I'm using Chromium.

Re: 1-Bit Hokusai’s ”The Great Wave”

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Post by vertis »

statico wrote: post #3

This site design is one of the best retro Mac site designs I've seen. The author really nailed the pixel perfect fonts — it looks perfect on my low-DPI and high-DPI displays. If anyone's interested, there's an active HyperCard community with some fun projects. There's a Discord server, too. https://hypercard.org/ I found that community through the Avara community, a port of the classic Mac multiplayer networked mech…

How I miss Escape Velocity and Ambrosia Software. It was the first game I bought. Had to call the US at some weird hour from Australia and pay with Dad's credit card over the phone.

I'm aware there are similar games like Endless Sky (which I've played quite a bit).

I really wish the people behind Ambrosia could be encouraged to open source everything.

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