With all of the value people place on high-resolution photographs and pictures, not to mention high-definition plasma television screens, it's no wonder pixelated icons or typefaces that look like this are often called retro or outdated:
Andy Rash has created some interestingly humorous low-resolution portraits he calls "Iotacons." They've even appeared in Fortune magazine, where Rash's portrait of Conan O'Brien can be seen:
The iotacons' blocky, geometrically constructed forms makes them look as if they were created and published during the same time period Susan Kare developed the original Macintosh icons.
Here are some more iotacons (since I'm not a huge fan of Conan O'Brien; I just thought it was cool that Rash's iotacons style was published in a magazine):
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