pcface VS awesome-css-frameworks

I hold VileR's work on int10h.org in high esteem, given its exceptional quality. As someone whose initial exposure to computers was through IBM PCs, I find VileR's website to be a treasure trove of IBM PC fonts, BIOS fonts, and related resources.

Inspired by IBM PC games from the 1990s, I aspired to create my own invaders-like game. However hindered by limited access to computers and limited computer programming knowledge, the most I could manage to make were a few text-based adventure games. Although 25 years too late, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I revisited this dream and spent a weekend writing my own Invaders game[1] using HTML5 Canvas.

Initially, I used CanvasRenderingContext2D: fillText() to display text (current score, info screen, etc.). However, dissatisfied with the text rendering quality, I began looking for IBM PC OEM fonts online and came across the Oldschool PC Fonts[2] on int10h.org. I downloaded the font packs from the website, used a Python script to convert them to bitmaps[3] (arrays of integers), and then used the bitmaps to draw text on the canvas, one cell at a time, to get pixel-perfect results!

I eventually switched to a different font pack called Modern DOS[4] developed by Jayvee Enaguas. Nevertheless given how extensive VileR's website is and how convenient the font preview tools[5] on the website are, int10h.org remains as my go-to website whenever I am doing any type of retrocomputing work for fun.

[1] https://susam.net/invaders.html

[2] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

[3] https://github.com/susam/pcface

[4] https://www.dafont.com/modern-dos.font

[5] https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?ibm_vga_...

Although not included in this demo, VileR does provide aspect-correct variants of the fonts at https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/. One can take the scripts at https://github.com/susam/pcface and generate the bitmap arrays for the aspect-correct variants too.

> It typically uses 256 characters exemplified by the font CP437

I have very fond memories of code page 437 (CP437). ASCII code 1 is a smiley face in CP437. How cool is that!

Shameless plug: I recently wrote a small toolkit to render CP437 characters on HTML5 canvas for a retro-style game project I was working on. Source: https://github.com/susam/pcface Demo: https://susam.github.io/pcface/src/demo.html

Agreed, find a class-less framework to start, so that you focus on just the HTML, semantic structure first. Here's a couple of lists of such frameworks:

https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#class-less

https://github.com/dohliam/dropin-minimal-css

Personally, I like simple.css (https://github.com/kevquirk/simple.css)

Maybe not exactly what you‘re looking for, but you could give https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss a try.

More here: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks#specialize...

I need a minimal CSS framework to use as a basis to extend for a new project. I hate bloated CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind. My ideal CSS framework would have SCSS components, well thought defaults to deal with different device sized, a decent user-base, a pre-made darkmode and less than 20KB when minimized. I saw a list of css frameworks here, but none have all my criteria. So appreciate your suggestions.

4. Awesome Css Frameworks

Anything from here would probably suit your needs quite easily: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks

You can have a look at https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks which is an extensive collection of CSS frameworks. Have a look at the "Class-less" section to checkout similar projects.

There is also an open PR to add Simple.css to the list: https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks/pull/85

In February 2018 I joined Dev.to 😎 and also I found the amazing Awesome CSS Frameworks. I was in love with all the world that existed apart Boostrap.