Amber and orange are hard colors to pin down
March 9, 2025 2:10 PM Subscribe
I have collected here many (85) color palettes of Retro CRTs, LCDs, CROs, VFDs, Nixie Tubes, Numitrons, Calculators, Terminals, and Computers (in text mode). Most of these are high contrast and are easy to read. When configuring software on modern PCs (such as your text editor, email client, etc.) or when creating web pages (in HTML, CSS), or other types of documents (graphics), you can use these color palettes to mostly relive displays of the past on today's high resolution flat panel displays.
I have to say, it's somewhat disappointing to see that most of these are done in that 12-bit colour space that we used to stick to for 16-bit-clean colours back in the day. And yet, this isn't the first site to suggest that an accurate replica doesn't need full 24-bit precision.
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:56 PM on March 9 [2 favorites]
posted by rum-soaked space hobo at 3:56 PM on March 9 [2 favorites]
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