29 · Dotted

A man page on an amber phosphor terminal.

Pure amber phosphor (#E8A028) on near-black with scanlines and CRT vignette, the standard man-page format (NAME / SYNOPSIS / DESCRIPTION / OPTIONS / FILES / AUTHOR / SEE ALSO), a dot-density ASCII portrait with one white-flickering eye, a top(1) process table with live load averages.

Reading `man mehta` at 03:00.

udaysinh

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Techniques used

What this sheet demonstrates.

CRT bezel, vignette, bloom
Round the corners, vignette the edges, bloom the highlights.
CRT scanlines from a 2-pixel gradient
`repeating-linear-gradient`, blended in.
Stepped animation as a design language
`steps()` turns smooth motion into something the medium chose.

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