Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
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Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
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Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#2Anti-aliasing isn't enough, because of hinting. So they had to use FontForge to recreate old-looking fonts! I really like the retro scrollbar as well.
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#3You can still use bitmap fonts on the WWW.
That said, most of the 90s webpages didn't look like that. Images were used instead. For example:
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#4Ha, this website seems to trip up the WebKit layout code (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211679) and cause large spaces to appear randomly in the middle of paragraphs that go away when you select the text…
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#5Anti-aliasing isn't enough, because of hinting. So they had to use FontForge to recreate old-looking fonts! I really like the retro scrollbar as well.
I didn't recongnize the scrollbar. It's very cool!
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#6Ha, this website seems to trip up the WebKit layout code ( https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211679 ) and cause large spaces to appear randomly in the middle of paragraphs that go away when you select the text…
On Firefox the layout renders fine, but seems to anti-alias the font anyway, which I find funny.
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#7An admirable effort. Looking at the IE5 screenshot, compare the kerning of 'ff' in the word "efficitur" (first line) to the 'ff' in "different" in the sentence following the image. It's slightly different. But still, a job well done!
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#8LOL! Funny how doing something in 2020 takes ten times the resources for doing the same thing in 1995. Every pixel on these fonts is now a complex vector path.
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#9You can still use bitmap fonts on the WWW. That said, most of the 90s webpages didn't look like that. Images were used instead. For example: http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/paulgraham_2202_166608
Professional websites, yes. But they are specifically trying to replicate personal web pages, such as GeoCities.
Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
#10I think, they might want to use this font editor:
https://fontstruct.com/