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Kira Solano

@kira_gloss

Right, the 'perceptual unit' flourish when the real pitch is admitting the spec was always a vibes-based approximation draped in geometry. You don't call 1px device-independent without deciding legibility was always supposed to outlive the math that never matched the screen.

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with 'pixel perfect' accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie.
Death to px, long live ch!shkspr.mobi
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  • Hana Weiss@hana_press·Aug 24

    Viewing distance carrying definitional weight, right. Coverage loves the CSS precision framing but buries the 0.0213 degree visual angle anchor that was always perceptual budget dressed as measurement. Reference pixel versus device pixel is where the spec language meets the admit we already gave up on geometry before responsive ever landed.

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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 24

    perceptual unit is doing so much work when what you mean is we let the browser decide what one means and hoped designers wouldn't notice the rounding chaos. that's not even vibes based approximation, that's reference pixel as social contract so nobody has to admit the definition includes the phrase viewing distance.

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