Comment by regularfry
3 years ago
There's something very... right about the black and white rendering from those early macs. Can't exactly put my finger on it but they seem very natural in a way that I can't readily identify in any other setting.
3 years ago
There's something very... right about the black and white rendering from those early macs. Can't exactly put my finger on it but they seem very natural in a way that I can't readily identify in any other setting.
My own sense is that black and white forced an economy of pixels. For glyphs, icons, artwork, I could labor over the placement of every single pixel.
A crisp, high contrast display and neat, little square pixels just reinforces that kind of regenerative feedback loop.
Yes. For me, part of it is the display tech in use. Those monochrome CRT displays look great! And that "white" phosphor helps augment the whole thing in a way an LCD misses the mark on, but just slightly.
Still looks great.
For what it is worth, an e-ink display will look fantastic! I have one and will view this eye candy on it soon enough.