Re: Proportional Fonts
From Christian 'CeeJay' Jensen <new...@ceejay.cjb.REMOVE_TO_REPLYnet>
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· 13 Sep 2003 10:43 · View full thread
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> Hi, > I am looking for some Proportional Fonts ascii arts(like Arial). Do You know > any web pages for them? qouting from : http://www.textfiles.com/art/texthistory.txt " AOL MACRO ART: America Online (AOL) is one of the few Internet/e-mail programs that did not allow for a fixed-width font. Up until the release of version 4.0, all AOL users had one font. -- yes, ONE font. That one font was Arial-10. Arial is a proportional font. The ASCII art of the Internet looked totally skewed to AOL users. In response, AOL users modified the spacing (by hand) so that the ASCII art would look good in their Arial proportional font. There are many AOL text artists who specialize in creating the Arial font pictures. Because their audience is solely other AOL users, "extended" characters are often used and seen without problems. These AOL Arial-font text pictures have been called "macros". Some misinformed people call them "ASCII Art" - they are not. Obviously, the AOL macros and ASCII art are 'cousins'. They are not the same. Many of the AOL macros are quite good. Unfortunately, they are not often seen or used by people outside of AOL (due to the font/spacing/character issues). " Try googling again for something like macros or aol art. Also try The Macrohouse : http://come.to/themacrohouse
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