--- title: 'Pixelfari: Your Safari Web browser never looked so wonderfully 8-bit chunky' date: '2011-02-16T16:37:27-08:00' type: post word_count: 238 char_count: 1587 tokens: 310 categories: - '#featured' - Fun - Oregon - Portland - Random tags: - 8-bit - 'neven mrgan' - panic - pixelfari - Safari - 'web browser' --- # Pixelfari: Your Safari Web browser never looked so wonderfully 8-bit chunky Now the folks at Portland-based [Panic](http://panic.com "Panic") are known as a pretty creative bunch, churning out awesome Mac software that both delights and amazes folks on a regular basis. But when you have the opportunity do all that good work during your day job, what’s one to do with free time? [Make an 8-bit version of the Safari Web browser](http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/3330188156/pixelfari "Pixelfari"), of course. Or at least that’s what Panic’s [Neven Mrgan](http://twitter.com/mrgan "Neven Mrgan") has done. With [Pixelfari](http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/3330188156/pixelfari "Pixelfari"). > Ladies and gents, fellow humans—presenting Pixelfari, a pixely, 8-bitty version of everyone’s favorite browser. Enjoy chunky fonts, blocky graphics, and a general sense of giddy inefficiency. Spearheaded by yours truly and developed by a very clever friend. Free+fun! What’s an 8-bit browser do exactly? Well. This. \[HTML1\] Sigh. Such pixelated fun. How’s it done? Well according to a [comment on Hacker News from modernerd](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228848): > It uses WebKit rebuilt with 8-bit png image assets, combined with the PixelMix font\[1\] and what appears to be a custom library called ‘Pixelifier'\[2\]. Very clever. > \[1\] \[2\] (Examined package contents and found ‘PixelifierDynamic.dylib’) To download your own copy, visit [Pixelfari on Neven Mrgan’s Tumblr](http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/3330188156/pixelfari "Pixelfari").