Teenage me thought there was NOTHING cooler than a flashy splash page and those micro bitmap fonts a la "silkscreen".
Who am I kidding I still think it's awesome.
Teenage me thought there was NOTHING cooler than a flashy splash page and those micro bitmap fonts a la "silkscreen".
Who am I kidding I still think it's awesome.
8pt Tahoma is the GOAT and I miss it desperately.
I remember vividly when Windows (XP I think?) introduced a new kind of font smoothing that messed with the look of those fonts. In hindsight, I feel like that moment was part of the catalyst toward Web 2.0-style designs. Screens started to get bigger, sites became higher resolution as bandwidth increased, and the tiny pixel font started to be both less relevant (you could fit more, larger text onscreen) and less beautiful (it rendered differently with font smoothing).
IIRC this shift also coincided with the shift toward Wordpress, including a more homogeneous set of pre-packaged "themes", and away from custom CMSes (or no CMS at all), the OG blogging "scripts" like Greymatter and b2.
8pt Tahoma, lowercase, and using colons for decoration, like this:
Yep! I'm guilty of continuing to use the double-colon separators to this very day. Just shipped an internal app for my company a few months ago that utilizes them in page titles.
> 8pt Tahoma is the GOAT and I miss it desperately.
So good it is bug when it 8pt Tahoma looks off: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/10
> IIRC this shift also coincided with the shift toward Wordpress, including a more homogeneous set of pre-packaged "themes", and away from custom CMSes (or no CMS at all), the OG blogging "scripts" like Greymatter and b2.
Shout-out to Geeklog, Textpattern, and the monstrosity that was PHPNuke.
Search for Artwiz under Unix. Same feelings.
Well, the screen resolutions and pixel densities of that time also made those micro bitmap fonts to be not so micro.
I miss it too.
Serious lack of anti aliasing contributed too.
I miss my 90s / 00s active desktop with random gifs of battlemechs walking around.