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

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471 points OuterVale | 2 comments | 06 Nov 24 02:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.541s | source
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agluszak ◴[06 Nov 24 11:59 UTC] No.42060755[source]▶
I'd claim that this is way better than what we've got after years of UX/UI "research" and "improvements".

And it's not that I'm some old boomer. In '98 I was one year old. I just hate buttons which don't look like buttons, tabs which don't look like tabs, text fields that you have to click to discover they're editable etc.

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1. jandrese ◴[06 Nov 24 14:49 UTC] No.42063124[source]▶
That said I'm not a fan of the black text over dark gray background.

Also, that website includes "show code" buttons disguised as ordinary text.

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2. mixmastamyk ◴[11 Nov 24 22:35 UTC] No.42111072[source]▶
It’s a light/medium gray. Believe the idea was to deemphasize the ui in favor of the document/input fields.