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98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

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389 points OuterVale | 3 comments | 06 Nov 24 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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akx ◴[06 Nov 24 08:02 UTC] No.42057977[source]▶
By eye alone, I'm pretty sure that is not MS Sans Serif as rendered in Windows 95 and Windows 98.
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1. worble ◴[06 Nov 24 10:00 UTC] No.42059024[source]▶
Recreating old fonts in modern browsers is a hard problem

https://web.archive.org/web/20230603234837/https://vistaserv...

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2. akx ◴[06 Nov 24 11:30 UTC] No.42060339[source]▶
Sure, but I refuse to call this a faithful recreation of the aesthetic until the fonts look correct. :D

On a related note, I did start working on some tools to work with legacy .FONs for this exact purpose earlier this year, but the project is iceboxed for now...

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3. sbarre ◴[06 Nov 24 14:56 UTC] No.42063258[source]▶
Sounds like it was a hard problem!