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True, and pixel art was originally designed for cathode ray tubes. This leads to a funny effect where modern pixel art designers perhaps misunderstand the intended look of actual oldskool pixel art and emulate it anyway. The same is true of old fonts.

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Modern pixel artists far from "misunderstand" the legacy of pixel art. They're specifically designing for a sensibility and context that didn't exist when pixel art was originally made. Actually talk to pixel artists and they'll explain this to you themselves perfectly fine

So it seems you missed the word “perhaps” which essentially makes this correction meaningless.

You can’t just slap “perhaps” on arbitrary statements and expect to not be corrected if they’re inaccurate.

We can never know what each and every pixel art designer means or intends, simply because there is no single answer.

Because of this obvious fact, I offered a common explanation among those designers I know that produced pixel art: that they simply do not consider the particulars of how pixel art was rendered on cathode ray tubes. Hence /perhaps/, a possibility is presented.

I find your counter-argument superficial and perhaps intentionally missing the point.

I have no idea about modern pixel art artist’s thought process, but it’s generally under-appreciated that CRT-era pixel art looks significantly different on todays displays than it looked on the originally targeted hardware.

That being said, there were also a couple of years in the 2000’s where pixel-based icons were specifically designed for LCD.

This is true for retro video game consoles and early computers that had ~240p displays or output to TVs. But later PC CRTs were pretty crisp and not really that much different from an LCD at native res.

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