[HN Gopher] Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons ___________________________________________________________________ Pixel Sea: Search 88x31 badges and 32x32 icons Author : FLpxpyJ Score : 38 points Date : 2023-09-15 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (pixelsea.neocities.org) (TXT) w3m dump (pixelsea.neocities.org) | hackermatic wrote: | Do one for GitHub badges next. ;) | wildrhythms wrote: | What a beautiful website! | tyingq wrote: | You can also coax google images into finding images of a specific | size: | | https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A88x31&tbm=isch | (88x31) | | https://www.google.com/search?q=imagesize%3A32x32&tbm=isch | (32x32) | phit_ wrote: | this used to be part of the search settings, then at some point | they just turned it into a dropdown of small, medium and large | | good to hear that this is still supported albeit hidden | billyhoffman wrote: | wow, I was not expecting to fall down a hole of the creator's | work for 15 minutes. This was especially fun: | | https://textures.neocities.org | samstave wrote: | [dead] | turtleyacht wrote: | > _Beeep I 'd like 2 see the sea with u 2 see what we can be! ... | and when ur gone far away, the sea is what I'll see!_ | cosmojg wrote: | All of the websites listed on the left via little pixel banners | are an absolute hoot as well! | | Here are the links for the lazy: | | [1] https://melonking.net/ | | [2] https://gifypet.neocities.org/ | | [3] https://textures.neocities.org/ | | [4] https://momg.neocities.org/ | | [5] https://tamanotchi.world/ | | [6] https://ozwomp.online/ | | [7] https://melonland.net/ | jkingsman wrote: | Another delightful callout -- make your own Antipixel-style badge | at http://www.acasystems.com/en/button-maker/ | | I was so smitten with the design of these back in the day. | notpushkin wrote: | Nice how trends just keep repeating themselves. | http://www.acasystems.com/base/button/make-button.php?f_txt_... | xnx wrote: | Cool tool, and a reminder of how thankful I am that this | particular button fad has passed. | Waterluvian wrote: | Why the dimensions 88x31? How did that come to be back then? | tyingq wrote: | Not exactly answering your question, but I'm pretty sure | Geocities started it. | | See the left sidebar in this wayback grab from 1996: | | https://web.archive.org/web/19961022173245/http://www.geocit... | | So people would use those as a starting point and customize | them. Why geocities picked those dimensions? Not sure. They are | in a <td> with a width of 120. | xnx wrote: | Netscape made a popular button with these dimensions in 1995 | that everyone used as a basis to riff off of. I don't know if | there were specific motivations for those exact dimensions by | the original designer. | upwardbound wrote: | I'm guessing that the reason that the vertical height is 31 | instead of 32 is that having the vertical height be an odd | number makes it possible to vertically center a number of | important symbols, such as +, -, >, arrows, circles, X's, and | so on. | willio58 wrote: | Love it. To me this is a playful way to use sound. It's loud, | bright, flashy, interactive. | accrual wrote: | I always appreciated getting to put the "Valid HTML" and "Valid | CSS" badges on my websites back in the day. There was some odd | pride in having super clean/strict HTML. | | I'm considering doing this again for my retro blog, since I'd | like it to be viewable in old browsers (IE6, Firefox 2, etc.). | | https://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Icons | vinyl7 wrote: | These were the good ol days ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-09-15 23:00 UTC)