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

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391 points OuterVale | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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OuterVale ◴[06 Nov 24 02:48 UTC] No.42056921[source]▶
Also worth checking out: https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css and https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css
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ChrisNorstrom ◴[06 Nov 24 07:52 UTC] No.42057937[source]▶
THANK you so much for the XP one. XP's UI is my favorite of all the Windows UIs. It had just enough modernity to feel sleek but still had contrast to be easily seen and read and understood.

Windows 7 UI was a bit too flashy and employed looks over readability and Windows 98 was too old fashioned and also suffered from a lack of contrast with all the grey.

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1. mrighele ◴[06 Nov 24 11:50 UTC] No.42060618[source]▶
I never enjoyed the XP one. Somebody called the Fisher-Price ui, and I think the remark is not too off. I would always switch to the "classic" UI, which I think was the same as Windows 2000, which in my opinion is the best of all (it is a similar but different from the one of Windows 98, especially in color choice and icon)