1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis

ValdikSS•27 minutes ago

If anyone interested in experimenting with dithering/halftoning algorithms in postscript, take a look at https://printserver.ink/blog/ghostscript-halftone/

You can implement it in PostScript, and there are many examples (with the PostScript code) in PDF specification (pages 303-307): https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/p...

srean•about 3 hours ago

My favorite from his site

https://hypertalking.com/2023/05/08/1-bit-pixel-art-of-hokus...

justsomehnguy•about 3 hours ago

BTW you can print it on a transparent film and use any coloured paper as a background layer or multiple with a different offsets and grade.

With a proper combo o depth you can get a very nice result.

srean•about 3 hours ago

Hey that's such a nice idea, of multiple layers.

Thanks to your idea, now I am imagining printing different layers of foreground and background on glass and stacking them with spacers for parallax.

willmeyers•about 2 hours ago

I was inspired by this site to run emojis through a dithering algorithm (https://dither-emojis.pages.dev/)! Nothing beats hand drawn though.

andrewstuart•38 minutes ago

They look good what was your process.

716dpl•about 2 hours ago

Great time to shoutout the work of Susan Kare: https://kareprints.com/

StacyC•about 1 hour ago

Love the website, fonts, UI and all of it! It brings back fun memories of my early Mac days.

guff_se•44 minutes ago

There’s an awful lot of emdashes in that text.

mrhottakes•about 3 hours ago

This has me feeling nostalgic for Hypercard. Nice work!

mathgladiator•about 3 hours ago

Awesome. I recently got a play.date device, so im getting into 1 bit pixel art for a game i am building. I am using as a forcing function 5o avoid the multitudes of rabbit holes possible with games. It is so refreshing!

andsoitis•about 4 hours ago

Cool. 1-bit hi-resolution emoji would be fire.

socalgal2•about 2 hours ago

What resolution? high enough and they will just appear gray scale. I think the point is for them to be low-res

trollbridge•about 4 hours ago

Some things are just plain beautiful.

I would gladly use this as an emoji set (alongside Chicago or Monaco).

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