Dot matrix 404, without JavaScript

This page loads no script at all. The message is an ordinary text node; the stylesheet runs it through a mask of dots and lays the grid behind it. It can be selected with the mouse, translated, and read by a screen reader. Back to the full page.

The component as it is

404

This page does not exist

The link may be out of date.

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The variants hold too

500

--dark

403

--flat

What the fallback does not imitate: the thinning of the edges is a continuous fade, where the canvas removes whole dots. CSS cannot draw lots, and at this size the eye reads the same thing.