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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 6 Jun 1999.
Re: FORGIVE THIS JPG, but

Re: FORGIVE THIS JPG, but

I think I'll opt for 3. Looks like some high school kids got bored, had to
much time on their hands and started making little pictures out of fonts.
Wo-hoo. Not sure I'd call it art.

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Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote in message
news:375...@earthling.net...
> > Veronika ... said:
> >
> [1] They don't "see" the pictures (or find it difficult to "see" them).
>     This is similar to not "seeing" those "pictures" that just consist
>     of a lot of dots and are supposed to be "3D" somehow. It's a matter
>     of being able to "bend one's eyes" into seeing something that isn't
>     really there.
>
> [2] They try to view them in a proportional font. There is a simple
>     solution to this: Just go into the preferences of your news reader
>     and change the font to a monospaced font (e.g. Monaco, Courier or
>     FixedSys).
>
> [3] Plain old _taste_ (which, as we know, is different for different
>     people).
>

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