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experimenting with fitting the Windows 95 UI into 2bpp (4 colours), by editing this screenshot
due to the dithering, I recommend viewing this at an integer scale factor
it's actually very easy to make the Windows 95 UI work with 2bpp. 3D elements only need four colours: white, light grey, dark grey and black. the only other colours of note are the highlight colour and active title bar colour (dark blue) and the desktop background colour (teal). you could just replace the latter two with, say, black and white respectively. but if you do that, it's all monochrome :(
I wanted there to be at least a little colour in this world. to make room for teal, I had to remove the dark grey. but it's essential to the 3D elements, so I replaced it with a dot-pattern dither of black and light grey.