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From: Veronica Karlsson <acinorev@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: Font type
Date: 1999/08/20
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Lennert Stock wrote:
> Krogg wrote:
>
> >Any "fixed with" or "non proportional" font....
> >
> >But my vote goes to "Topaz new2" by Al Tinsley,
>
> Same vote here.
>
> It shouldn't make too much of a difference, but
> unfortunately there's quite some difference between what
> I call terminal-art and windows-ascii-art. Artists might
> be less aware of the platform-dependent suboptimilization
> (blub) than they'd think or like.

I think different fonts tend to "inspire" different styles. E.g. I don't
like to use commas since they look "curly" in the font I use, but when I
made some pictures on a PC once I found myself typing commas anyway
(they looked like little lines in that font, I think it was FixedSys).
Also, the font I use is quite wide, so I noticed that my big self
portrait lost a few kg when I looked at in in a different font...

> If you watch ascii art
> from before the mid-nineties, they were made on lower
> resolutions, with other line spacing and spacing in general.
> If you watch the same font nowadays in Windows, it works,
> but it doesn't look as good as originally. The effect differs
> with artists and pictures though. Needless to say, I hope the
> same thing doesn't happen again in some years when we all
> have these 21-inch 2000x2000 pixel monitors.
>
> I snapshot some pictures once in Topaz, of 'old ASCII-art'.
> Check it out here:
> http://gate99.nl/ascii
>

That's a very "heavy" font! Those solid pictures look good in it.  :-)

Here's the same font with one of my pictures:

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pig_Krogg.gif

And the way it looked when I made it:

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pig_VK.gif

> (for those ascii-history-aware, among others there's
> Row's 'Pussy' picture, one of the all time greats, in
> its original font).

How I'm used to seeing it:

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pussy.gif

And my waterfall picture:

http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/waterfall.gif


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