[toxik]

True, and pixel art was originally designed for cathode ray tubes. This leads to a funny effect where modern pixel art designers perhaps misunderstand the intended look of actual oldskool pixel art and emulate it anyway. The same is true of old fonts.

[qubidt]

Modern pixel artists far from "misunderstand" the legacy of pixel art. They're specifically designing for a sensibility and context that didn't exist when pixel art was originally made. Actually talk to pixel artists and they'll explain this to you themselves perfectly fine

[layer8]

I have no idea about modern pixel art artist’s thought process, but it’s generally under-appreciated that CRT-era pixel art looks significantly different on todays displays than it looked on the originally targeted hardware.

That being said, there were also a couple of years in the 2000’s where pixel-based icons were specifically designed for LCD.

[toxik]

So it seems you missed the word “perhaps” which essentially makes this correction meaningless.

[cylon13]

You can’t just slap “perhaps” on arbitrary statements and expect to not be corrected if they’re inaccurate.

[toxik]

We can never know what each and every pixel art designer means or intends, simply because there is no single answer.

Because of this obvious fact, I offered a common explanation among those designers I know that produced pixel art: that they simply do not consider the particulars of how pixel art was rendered on cathode ray tubes. Hence /perhaps/, a possibility is presented.

I find your counter-argument superficial and perhaps intentionally missing the point.

[p1necone]

This is true for retro video game consoles and early computers that had ~240p displays or output to TVs. But later PC CRTs were pretty crisp and not really that much different from an LCD at native res.