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A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs

17 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2020-04-22 · latest 2026-07-24

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  1. …the ever-so-slightly-incorrect version of MS Sans Serif. Finally decided to do something about it: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/pull/230
    comment by akx · 2026-07-24 · in 98.css
  2. …https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10 https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://
    comment by ranger_danger · 2026-07-23 · in 98.css
  3. > 8pt Tahoma is the GOAT and I miss it desperately. So good it is bug when it 8pt Tahoma looks off: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/10
    comment by bradly · 2025-05-29 · in Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
  4. Various css files for retro-theming. Each of these have been discussed here previously. - Windows 98: https://github.com/jdan/98.css - Windows XP: https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css - Nes: https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css - Mac…
    comment by amenghra · 2025-05-19 · in Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band
  5. Looks like it's a special font provided by https://github.com/jdan/98.css (Which has come a long way in the past couple of years, despite still being 0.1.x) Although there is a CSS rule for manipulating how fonts are anti-aliased, it was…
    comment by rhet0rica · 2025-05-06 · in Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
  6. …https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10 https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://
    comment by lelanthran · 2024-11-07 · in 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
  7. …https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10 https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://
    comment by ranger_danger · 2024-11-06 · in 98.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIs
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    Create a Windows 98 Style UI with 98.css
    story by basic_banana · 2024-05-29 · 0 comments
  9. I collect niche Operating System CSS! - [98.css]( https://github.com/jdan/98.css ): A Windows 98 inspired framework for building faithful recreations of old UIs. - [Office 97 clipart in svg format]( https://archive.org/details/mso97clipart…
    comment by swyx · 2023-07-10 · in Show HN: React95 – A React components library recreating the look of Windows 95
  10. …odd scaling… and so on. [1]: https://appleinsider.com/inside/macos/tips/what-is-display-s... [2]: https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/125
    comment by moritz · 2023-03-28 · in Smalltalk Type
  11. …https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10 https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://
    comment by ranger_danger · 2022-09-18 · in Hacker News stylized as a retro 90s macOS desktop
  12. …https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css https://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.css https://github.com/jdan/98.css https://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10 https://github.com/khang-nd/7.css https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386 https://
    comment by ranger_danger · 2022-08-18 · in Thunderbird Time Machine: Windows XP and Thunderbird 1.0
  13. …inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.css): A Windows 98 inspired framework for building faithful recreations of old UIs. - [Office 97 clipart in svg…
    comment by swyx · 2022-08-11 · in System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces
  14. Will the 98.css version do? https://github.com/jdan/98.css
    comment by Jaruzel · 2020-05-17 · in Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
  15. …on latest macOS. And i've seen some pretty weird glitches with this kind of custom font, e.g., https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/13 . If something is truly that broken feel free to hit us up at webmaster@ with a screenshot, we'd…
    comment by toothbrush · 2020-05-10 · in Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers
  16. Beautiful work, thanks so much :) I'll keep poking at fonts and see what I can learn https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues/10 I love that we arrived at the ~same solution using inset shadows for the buttons. Makes me feel validated.
    comment by prezjordan · 2020-04-22 · in 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
  17. That's the beauty of open code. You can pick all the nits you want -> https://github.com/jdan/98.css/issues :)
    comment by jspash · 2020-04-22 · in 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs