27 · Teletext

BBC Ceefax, P100. Pure black, seven colours, VT323.

Pure black ground inside a CRT-bezel frame with scanlines and bloom, the canonical seven teletext colours, VT323 monospace on a ~40-column grid, big P100 / 1/3 page numbers, page-flip via numeric keys like a TV remote, a Fastext colour-key bar, scrolling news ticker.

Broadcast over the vertical blanking interval of a PAL TV signal.

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/p/teletext/—open ↗

/p/teletext/

open fullscreen — better on a phone

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Techniques used

What this sheet demonstrates.

CRT bezel, vignette, bloom
Round the corners, vignette the edges, bloom the highlights.
Buffered numeric page-flip
Type `2` `0` `0` like a TV remote; flip when it parses.
CRT scanlines from a 2-pixel gradient
`repeating-linear-gradient`, blended in.

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