Post #957738

2026-04-01 18:37 UTC

Whoever did the ◀ ◀ REW graphic for Apple&#39;s homepage today has never used a one-bit display with Chicago. Besides the arrows being impossible to render, the glyphs in the text didn&#39;t have the standard 6:9 ratio. Also lots of anti-aliasing which is kind of hard to do when your only choices are black or white 😉 I pretended to be Susan Kare and fixed it, bottom is the original, top is my interpretation.

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@chockenberry@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 19:10

Just yesterday, I was working on the Easter Egg in Notchmeister. In a one-bit Chicago kind of mood, I guess. 😉 More about Notchmeister in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notchmeister/id1599169747?mt=12

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@steveriggins@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 18:42

@chockenberry maybe the designer bit off more than they could drew

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@cphansen@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 18:47

@chockenberry much better, thank you! :)

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@planetexpress69@mastodon.social 2026-04-01 20:24

@chockenberry Merci, monsieur!

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@evilpeacock@mastodon.world 2026-04-01 21:15

@chockenberry As a motion designer I often have to wrestle with After Effects to eliminate subpixel antialiasing when I want those hard pixels. It's not even about retro resolution — your "interpretation" just looks better even blown up so large. And I'm not terribly surprised — even in the mid-aughts I worked with self-proclaimed UX designers that ignored the pixel grid in drawing tools like Adobe Illustrator.

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@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social 2026-04-02 03:23

@chockenberry Kids these days. Sheesh.

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