Re: [pic] Font

Look, look, look! Who is joining the discussion here!

(Oh dear, oh dear, my old lover Spunkystein is butting in ...)

> The artform of creating pictures with a typewriter ought
> to be called "typewriter art"   (and it is).
> 
> The artform of creating pictures with ASCII characters
> (those listed in the' American Standard Code of Information
> Interchange') ought to be called "ASCII art"  (and is).
> 
> The artform of creating pictures with keyboard characters
> ought to be called "keyboard art".  (that would include any
> text-pictures made with non-standard characters.)

If you want to be _that_ differentiating, my dear, then by the same token you
ought to declare your (and others') website an html art website. 

But I am sure that you won't do that, you will keep calling the html exhibits
ascii art, ha ha ha!

> In all above cases, the picture (aka art) is text-based and
> probably could be considered as "text-graphics" or as "text-art".
> 
> When you go beyond using text characters to create a
> picture, it is no longer characterized as any of the above.
> It may be a gif... It may be a jpg...  It may be something else.
> but it is no longer text.    Perhaps it started out as text--
> but it is no longer.

The above two paragraphs fail to recognize that text and text characters as
such are computer codes, and as such are not immediately visible to the human
eye. 

These codes are made visible by displaying them in a variety of media, such as
.txt (i.e. your beloved Notepad) or .doc or .gif etc etc etc

These media render the code on their own, no medium is rendering any other medium.

> ie:  someone creates a sculpture ...  it is a 3D medium.
> Someone then takes a picture of it...  it is now a 2D
> representation of a 3D artform.  Quite different.

Quite different indeed, and irrelevant as well.

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