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\__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/
And an impressively tiny one:
________ ________
/ /_ __/\ /\ \__ _\
/___/_/_/\/ \ \___\_\_\
\___\_\_\/ \/___/_/_/
Warlorders call most ascii fonts "BUAFs", for butt-ugly ascii font.
(buaG substitutes G-for-graphic.) I'm on the lookout for fonts that
might pass for butt-beautiful, and I'll settle for butt-bearable...
:^) Here's my new favorite (anybody know Jules?):
_| _| _| _| _|_|_ _|_|_
_| _| _| _| _| |/ \|_
_| _| _| _| _| _|/ \|
\|_|_/ \|_|_/ _|_|_| \|_|_| \|_|_/
For page-layout, the linedraw palette is useful for making boxes and
frames, which adds to a screen's 'page-appeal' in the same way a
picture-frame sharpens the look of a wall-poster.
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Texture and gesture
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I experienced a personal ascii-art epiphany last winter, on seeing a
few signatures where people used this: _/ as a tile, which provides
an amazing sense of *texture*:
_/
_/ _/
_/ _/ _/
Another (flatter) sort of
texture: The same, randomized:
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* ::*:::::***:::::::::::
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* :::::::**::::::*::::*:
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* :*::*:*::*::::*::::*::
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* :::*::::::*::*:*::::::
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* ::*:*::::*:*::::::::::
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* ::::::*:*::::*::::::::
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* *::::::::**:::::::::**
*::*::*::*::*::*::*::* ::::*::::::*:::::*::::
If your wp's macro-language includes a random-number function, you
can generate textures by writing a 'Spatter' macro that fills a
rectangle with the letters of any string, randomly scattered.
_/ _/
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_/ _/
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As far as I know, _/ _/ _/
the first appli- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
cation to allow _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/
the use of a mouse _/ _/ _/
to draw ascii _/ _/_/ _/ _/
*gesturally* will _/ _/ _/ _/_/
be Matt Mora's _/ _/ _/ _/
AsciiPaint (for Mac), _/ _/
now in beta. (Watch _/
for announcements.) _/_/
It made this easy: _/ _/ _/
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ASCII greyscale
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ASCII art has its roots in the technology of *mosaics*. Most
mosaics use small elements with a single, solid colorshade. By this
standard, ASCII offers 95 shades of grey! (When I was small, a
design firm in my town built a hi-tech mosaic mural for the Wright
Brothers museum in Dayton, Ohio, a wall-sized version of that
classic b&w photo of their first flight, built out of inch-square
tiles in about eight shades of grey-- only instead of solid greys,
they used (fractally) tiny black-and-white 'icons', which
represented other scenes from the Wrights' career, covering a scale
from very light to very dark...)
Here's an approximate, partial greyscale ascii palette (still
assuming white background):
.'`,^:";~
-_+<>i!lI?
/\|()1{}[] (I'm looking for feedback about where this doesn't work,
rcvunxzjft for non-Mac-Monaco displays.)