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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 26 May 1994.
Re: pls help improve 3-line font

Re: pls help improve 3-line font

>        Bean Fairies? *Shrug*

Yes.  When good little children eat all their vegetables, then, on the
night of the blue moon, when everyone is fast asleep, the Bean Fairies
tunnel their way up from their dark, cool caverns beneath the earth.
Pop!  Up through the grass, they sprout like little mushrooms with
bright red caps.  And carefully through the windows, to where the good
children sleep, to leave little boxes of tofu beside their pillows.
Bad children get tofu without the boxes.

Seriously, "beansidhe" is the Gaelic root for "banshee".

About the 3-line font.  '"' is probably the best character for filling
the upper half of a space.  Since this isn't adequate, how about avoid
using the upper half.  Something like this:

  ooo,  ooooo ,ooo,  oo oo,ooo, oo ooo,  oo oo ooooo
 d8oob d8oo  d8oodP dP8dP 8oo, dP dP dP d8odP d8oo  
d8ooP'd8ooo dP  dP dP 8P booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo

If you want more definition, shift to a different style.  Use
line-drawing characters, like this:

  //==, //=== ,===,  //| // //==, == //==,  //  // //===
 //==< //==  //==// //||//  `==, // //  // //==// //== 
//==='//=== //  // // |// `==// // //===' //  // //===

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From: fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: pls help improve 3-line font
Date: 26 May 1994 04:32:56 GMT
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