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Dex 🔞@Dex6/13/2023, 2:43 AM

Jessica @ticky

Jessica @ticky6/13/2023, 1:22 AM

just discovered that the archive.org homepage icons are black, but tinted with a snippet like:

filter: invert(70%) sepia(68%) saturate(6213%) hue-rotate(164deg) brightness(101%) contrast(106%);

absolutely despicable behaviour what the fuck

how did I notice? somehow the page triggered macOS' extended dynamic range and instead of clipping to sRGB I got incredibly overblown icons due to the way they were coloured in, fucking phenomenal

#archive.org #internet archive #css crimes

Dex 🔞@Dex6/13/2023, 2:43 AM

oh my god

(for anyone that hasn't experienced mac XDR when not expecting it, it's like you have your regular normal everyday monitor, and then right in the middle of it there is this portal to this Hell Dimension Made Of Light)

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Moo 🌸@Moo6/13/2023, 1:27 AM

Huh??? Why?

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer6/13/2023, 1:30 AM

I was going to say "do u think they're like that so they can transition fill color of the icon without converting them to svgs" but then I looked and saw that they area already svgs.......

sakiamu @sakiamu6/13/2023, 6:47 AM

iirc, this is like, the one way to recolor SVGs in browsers or something cursed like that?

Jessica @ticky6/13/2023, 2:27 PM

it’s uh, a way to do it if you’re using img tags or background-image but like, inlining them would make this so much more elegant…

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer6/13/2023, 7:46 PM

I did it once upon a time to colorize the png icons on my portfolio website on mouse hover bc I (still) have no idea how to DO inline svgs myself and bc I decided I wanted to do it after the whole thing was basically done and I didn't care enough to figure it out, but like, with the understanding that it was an awful cursed evil way to do it

evie @ewie6/13/2023, 1:31 AM

it's incredibly cursed and i support it.

ruby @srxl6/13/2023, 1:40 AM

What In Fuck

@darryl @darryl6/13/2023, 3:06 AM

SIX THOUSAND PERCENT!?

Olive @wick6/13/2023, 3:11 AM

Oh yeah I do that too for my witchdice tool. It's the easiest only-css way that I know of to get arbitrary colors out of an icon when it could be either an svg or png // an img or background-image. There are utilities that you give a hex code and they spit out those filter settings.

noah @mahalis6/13/2023, 5:06 AM

honestly I love that that caused the EDR stuff to fire up. “six thousand percent? uhhh I will try”

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Jessica @ticky6/13/2023, 3:02 PM

I think my favourite part is that they can pull this trick off convincingly on a 400 nit display, wild stuff

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