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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 3 Dec 1998.
Re: Great Works Of Art

Re: Great Works Of Art

.----- On Wed, 02 Dec 1998 17:07:30 GMT, Firedraake posted:
|
|And on a side note, and I'm hopefully not insulting anyone, but do you
|guys know about the Monotype.com font?  IMHO, it's the best font
|around for viewing ASCII. due to fewer bumps and ridges on characters,
|if one is looking for smoother lines.  Just thought I'd throw that in
|for an FYI.
|
|For a display image of Monotype.com and more info, here's the URL.
|
|http://softseek.com/Graphics_and_Drawing/Fonts/Fonts/Review_17320_index.html
|
'---------------------------

Hmm... let's look in the MiniFAQ...

<snip!>
         >-----------------------------------------------------<
          __  __                                                _
         |  \/  | ___  _ __   ___  ___ _ __   __ _  ___ ___  __| |
         | |\/| |/ _ \| '_ \ / _ \/ __| '_ \ / _` |/ __/ _ \/ _` |
         | |  | | (_) | | | | (_) \__ \ |_) | (_| | (_|  __/ (_| |
         |_|  |_|\___/|_| |_|\___/|___/ .__/ \__,_|\___\___|\__,_|
                          / _| ___  _ |_|| |_ ___
                         | |_ / _ \| '_ \| __/ __|
                         |  _| (_) | | | | |_\__ \
                         |_|  \___/|_| |_|\__|___/

Almost all ASCII art is created and intended to be viewed in a monospaced,
or fixed width font. Find your operating system/computer on the list below
and find a font on your system that is on the list.

Windows:  FixedSys                                 (Supplied with Windows)
          Courier New                              (Supplied with Windows)
          Courier                                  (Supplied with Windows)
          Lucida Console             (Supplied with Microsoft Win95 Plus!)
          Topaz New
          Monotype.com   <---------------.
          Terminal                       |
          Lucida Sans Typewiter          |
          OCR A Extended                 |
          OCRB                           |
          Netextmo                       |
                                         |
<snip!>                                  |
                                         |
Looks like we did know ------------------'

thanks anyways (and thanks for the URL)
-Martin
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From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Great Works Of Art
Date: 1998/12/03
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