DITHER
A limited-palette phosphor grid. Flat colour, dithered into shade — no gradient, ever. Cyan carries signal, magenta marks memory.
Shade without a gradient
Ordered checker-dither turns four flat colours into a full range of tone. The pattern is the shading — every cell reads crisp at any size, and the whole field re-tints the instant the palette swaps.
Every module is a framed window
Nested utility windows snap to an eight-pixel grid. Inverse-video title bars, four-sided pixel bevels, hard ninety-degree corners — structure you can read at a glance, never a floating card.
Machine-like feedback
Meters are built from discrete cells, not smooth bars. Progress, memory and signal read as quantized state — the readout tells you exactly where the system stands.
for the phosphor age
Framed windows, ordered dither, quantized feedback — a retro workstation shell corrected to current craft. Nostalgia with real utility.