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this is poppin off a lil so hi i'm rhia, consider following me if you like rants about video game ui, complaining about mahjong, if you're a new blood fan, or just really wanna make a trans girl witch happy 💜

this is why you're a real one ❤️

there's also a lot of false nostalgia for pixel fonts; many of them look fantastic (and readable!) on older CRT displays but are painful to look at on an LCD

sounds like someone somewhere did one of those "focus groups" to manufacture data to support their position because it's unmistakeably false; stardew valley uses pixel fonts despite having no commitment to any specific pixel resolution, especially in its UI

Meanwhile every time I want clean vector fonts, they end up looking like trash. Some people die of thirst while others drown.

I'm looking at you Square-Enix. Mr. Final Fantasy-PIXEL Remasters.

As is my understanding, fonts cost money to license. Creating a font seems easy but it’s probably isn’t at all. Might not be the reason but could be it.

Nooooo pixels are bad for read

THANK YOU it's like decorating a room entirely with wood and iron midcentury modern furniture except for one colorful plastic chair oh, but the chair is comfortable? i don't care! it ruined the entire design! find a comfortable chair that matches!

I plan to do a similar thing too, it does annoy me when the UI is also pixelated except the text, so like...yeah, I'm picking a lane lol

And when the resolution of one thing is inexplicably higher/lower than the rest

Noted when I get the time to pursue game dev a bit more for a small pixel game 👍

😭 evil

This is kinda funny idk why 😂

this isn't about retro authenticity though, this is about aesthetics and stylization, it is objectively incongruous to have a chunky pixel ui with smooth text, it rarely if ever looks good and outside of being an accessibility option, should be avoided for the sake of a coherent visual presentation