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Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 18 Oct 1995.
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Talk: Dark on light ASCII art

Talk: Dark on light ASCII art

alt.ascii-art · 1 message · 18 Oct 1995
Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com> ASCII art 18 Oct 1995 00:00 · raw headers · report 
T. Simpson <tes...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> wrote:
>
>	Yes, WinNotepad is an ASCII Editor, but sometimes you have to 
>fiddle with it for ASCII to look good. Main reason is it ignores a lot of 
>the formatting that ASCII Artists use. That, and ASCII Art doesn't look 
>the same on white background as it does on black.

   ASCII art tends to look better if it's made light on dark, but in many 
instances people are using software that displays dark on light.  I have 
a collection of art I think looks good dark on light.  It's called the 
Scarecrow's Special.  It's available at: ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow/

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