Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design
The gossip columns say Hooked on music <an1...@anon.penet.fi> wrote: >Could a brilliant ASCII artist help me create a printable Christmas >card? Here's the design: > > _______________________ >| | ^ >| <------ 80 columns -> | | >| | | | >| (an upside| | | >| down art)| | | >|-----------|-----------| 63 lines >| | | >| | | | >| | Merry | | >| | Xmas | | >| | | | >|_______________________| V > > >For the "upside-down art", I want either a beautiful Christmas Tree >or a bear or something 'warm hearted'. Of course, this will then be >folded two times to create the Christmas card. Interesting, and it got me to thinking about it. You know, since this is to be printed out, an artist could take advantage of various printing techniques. Depending on the software-hardware config, you could do overstrike printing, or play games with actual typography (changing the typefaces, size, using bold and italic, and proportional type. -- . + ' . * . . ' ) . + . . ____ _____ ___ . ____ . _____ ' .+ . * '. * / __/ /____/ /__ \ ' /__ \ '/____/ . * ' . + . '+ ' .( ( + __' . __| |.* ___) / ____' ' + . .' .' \ \' / / . ,/,/| | ./ _/. / __/ ' . ' . + : ' . * '____) )/ /__ ,/ /__| | / /\ \ / /__' _____ ____ _______' __ __ __ /_____//____//________|/_/ /_/'/____/ /____/ /__ \ '/ ___ /./ /'/ /./ / ' .+ . * ' . : __ . + ___) /. / /. / / / / / / / /. . ' * . + ' . */ /. '/ _/ / /'*/ /'/ /./ /*/ /. ' . ' ( . ' : + / /__ / /\ \'./ /__/ / / /_/ /_/ / + ' '. .+ .' * ' ./____/ /_/ /_/ /______/+/_________/ .' . * ' . ' . '+ . ' * . ' ( + '. :
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110f55,3796fffe486bcf0d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,3796fffe486bcf0d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,3796fffe486bcf0d,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 23:53:00 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: bob...@wwa.com (Bob Allison) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Talk: ASCII Xmas Card Design Date: 1 Dec 1994 01:53:21 -0600 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 708-367-1871 Lines: 46 Approved: bob...@wwa.com Message-ID: <3bjvdh$ej...@sashimi.wwa.com> References: <215...@anon.penet.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: sashimi.wwa.com Xref: bga.com rec.arts.ascii:2953 alt.ascii-art:15155 alt.binaries.pictures.ascii:1679
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