Re: Font type

On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:33:29 -0400, Krogg <kro...@gtcom.net> 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. 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

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