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by semolino 801 days ago
My guess was that feDisplacementMap was used for the ink-gain effect on the About page (try highlighting the text!), but I was delighted to see that it's a combination of CSS blur(), contrast(), and brightness() filters against a tiled blue-noise background.

This level of detail, especially when it's implemented in a performant way, really elevates the webcraft here. To the author: nicely done.