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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Dec 2001.
Re: Variable Font ASCII ART ????

Re: Variable Font ASCII ART ????

From ray...@number.net · alt.ascii-art · 25 Dec 2001 05:32 · View full thread · report
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 08:47:25 GMT, Laura T. <she...@lycos.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 23:32:34 GMT, ro...@itsa.uscf.edu wrote:
>
>>Has anybody done any? Examples? What fonts?
>
>http://www.backwash.com/content.php?jouid=2248 
>
>I found a link that was interesting. They used different fonts to make
>a picture. You have to put it in an image file to be easily viewable.
>Take a look and see it this is what you were thinking of. 
>
>Its the link "Reinventing ASCII Art".

Interesting, but not quite what I was thinking. The pics shown could be
just as easily painted.

Specifically, I was thinking of traditional ASCII art. But, instead of
working in courier, have you tried to do a picture using Times-Roman? Or
some other font? If posted, you would have to tell us what font to set
our newsreaders to.

Years ago, I took a printing course - at that time Helvetica was
popular. Approximate width counts were something like: 1/2 for i and j;
1.5 for caps or m; 2 for M; etc.

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