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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 2 May 1998.
Re: "but we don't *do* names..."

Re: "but we don't *do* names..."

Veronica Karlsson (dre...@on.spammer) wrote:

: There are cases of "my name in ascii" when Figlet is not the solution to
: the problem. This looks like one of them.  :)

: Here's my attempt:

:  _
: |
: |_         _  _
: | | /\ |\ | >< | |
: | |_><_| \| \/ |_|
:                  |
:                 _|

Mmm. Yeah. The '<' look much better in a font other than the one I've been
using - they were a bit too short before so didn't connect with the top and
bottom of the space. But I'm willing to change font :)

I think the 'h' and 'y' need to be a bit wider, and the top of the 'r' longer
though:
 __
|
|__          _  __ 
|  |  /\ |\ | ><  |  |
|  |__><_| \| \/  |__|
                     |
                   __|


: Squeezing the height a little:

Yeah...5 lines is acceptable for a sig.

You gave me some ideas so I started messing around:
 __
|__    _     _  __
|  |  / >|\ | ><  |  |
|  |__><_| \|<_/  |__|
                   __|

 __
|__    _     _  __
|  |  / ||\ | ><  |  |
|  |__><_| \||_/  |__|
                   __|

 __
|__          _  __
|  |  <> |\ | \/  |  |
|  |__/\_| \| <>  |__|
                   __|

What's more readable?

Are there any tricks with the dots and things that could be applied?

: Squeezing harder:

(I widened the 'h'&'y' here)
:  __          _  __
: |__  /\  |\ | ><  |__|
: |  |_><__| \| \/   __|

Three lines! I think maybe its starting to look a bit deformed though.
To look like normal text it needs the tail of the y to be below the rest so I
doubt its possible below 5 lines.

Thanks!

--
-- 
Henry Segerman
 ___
|
|
|___           _  __
|   |  /\ |\  | \/  |   |
|   |  \/ | \ | /\  |   |
|   |__/\_|  \| \/  |___|
                        |
                        |
                     ___|

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From: sjo...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Henry Segerman)
Subject: Re: "but we don't *do* names..."
Date: 1998/05/02
Message-ID: <6ieptf$lqh$1...@news.ox.ac.uk>#1/1
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References: <6idbb1$i49$1...@news.ox.ac.uk> <354...@on.spammer>
Organization: Oxford University, England
Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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