Lofi or Lo-fi, aka low-fidelity, most commonly refers to the sound quality and therefore defines a genre of audio composition. Let me go deeper on that topic later.
Side note: I am offering you some free lo-fi music beats to listen to, while you are reading this article. In case Spotify is not your flavour, I am adding a Youtube link to the bottom as well. So scroll down before you start if you wish to listen to some background music.
Definition of Lo-fi
Whereas generally speaking about ‘lo-fi’, it has received some other meanings over the past years. If you just click on Wikipedia. Besides Lo-fi music, which is number 1 in most countries, you immediately find the Lo-fi disambiguation page. This page helps us check other possible meanings and Wikipedia search results with the word lofi.
Many of those refer to my original point: Lofi music, hip-hop, band, etc. Even Lofi Girl refers to a YouTube channel (formally known as ChilledCow) that is quite well-known to the fans of the genre.
A bit about Photography
On the other hand, it may also refer to photography. In this sense finally, we are not to cover music but the concept remains almost the same. Low fidelity – the imitation of low quality. I have to state though that the aim of “low quality” is never to produce “small” photos on Instagram but to offer a warm, grainy vibe.
We almost hint that the photo is imperfect. As if they were done by a toy camera or an old film camera. But (in my case) I work with an Honor 20 Pro smartphone camera and I process my photos with Snapseed and/or Lightroom. It depends on my mood and what I wish to achieve.
Characteristics of Lo-fi generally
In case you wish to deep dive a bit. Although I do my best to share articles time-to-time with you. But you may also read great ones here.
