It is just Android. If you're familiar with the usual Material styling of Android, you're familiar with what Graphene looks like.

If they'd put a screenshot, that would then have been immediately clear to casual visitors.

My initial assumption was "this is gonna look like a typical OSS product, and not as polished as iOS or Android". A single screenshot would have dispelled that notion.

Currently financed on user donations. The future plan is to intoduce further features which are costly to provide behind a paywall to remain sustainable.

The site is down. You can read the article via the Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260112201803/https://blog.meta...

I'm familiar with TurnTrout's The Pond using visual regression testing as well: https://turntrout.com/design#visual-regression-testing

You say this, but the author was born in 1976. It not being perfect doesn't mean that the person involved doesn't know what they're talking about.

Indeed. I made this because I grew up with CRTs and miss that vibe. As I say on the page: it's not scientifically accurate, but it looks good, and gives the same sort of feeling. And more than that uses minimal shader code so it works well on older devices. I'm currently making a 3D game that uses this shader and it runs at 60fps an iPhone XS (2018).

Looks like my site (https://vale.rocks) ranked 440 by score, 128 by stories, and 135 by average score. Thanks for everyone here who checked out my writing last year!

Not to mention all the far-out OpenType features.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typographic_features

Really fascinating how you can get such intriguing output from such a simple system. Prompted me to give it a whirl with the content on my own site.

https://vale.rocks/micros/20251214-0503

Content that appears in the viewport before scrolling is considered 'above-the-fold' and is thus prioritised to load quickest. The viewport dimensions are used to figure out what will be above-the-fold.