Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 6 Dec 1998.
4th December
alt.ascii-art
· 4 messages · 6 Dec 1998 - 13 Dec 1998
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Veronica Karlsson (VK)
Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant.
I come ye, oh come ye to Bethlehem.
-- Seasons Greetings --
I decided to test other fonts on my system with this pic... Everyone - don't EVER use Lucida Console! :) This pic looked horrible in Lucida Console... the ()'s are far more rounded. Courier New | Lucida Console / \ | ,- -. | | | ( ) \ / | '- -' And, the U was barely distinguishable - _,_ looked like a straight line with a little bulgue on the bottom the middle. (the top of the comma lined up with the understroke, and the comma looked like a square itself) Just a few complains about Lucida Console.. :) P.S. Great pics Veronica, Joan, and everyone else! Gonna kick ass over my two :) (I don't know when the first one will be posted, but my second one will be on he 21st..) > __.------. > __.-' `-. > / `. __`. > | \____ .-' J \ > ) _\ `--/ / L > /| .-' `-. / | > | >\/.-'`---.____ \J)/ | > \.-' .-. .-.`-./\ | > J \|)\ /(|/ L `. / _.--. > .' ___ .-. / / \ / `. > / .-',-'`:\_/:._ J ( )|___ / > / ' '.'.' . - .\`.`-. `-' (_\_)-' > .' ' / `"' \\`.\ _.-' `-._ > / ) .-' `-._ > L.' | | `. > | |/ __ | | | _` |(_-< \ > / L _| _|\_,_|\__, |___/ L > \ | / ` J ____/ \ > |L / | _| ) > J ( L _| _| | > J | / \____| \ > `\ J J _ \ | | > L ) ( __/ | | _| _|(_-<_| | > / | `\ _| \_,_|_| _| ___/_) \ > ____.( ( ) ) ) ) ))______________________________| > ------`-`-'-'`-'-''------------------------------------------ > Veronica Karlsson (VK) -- _ _ ___ _ ___ _ _ ___ | | / o | |_| o ) | |_ -| v a l d u s @ ICQ: 7107014 \_/|_|_|___|__/|___|___| bcgroup . net Hilton Janfield
On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:05:47 -0800, Hilton Janfield (val...@bcgroup.net) wrote:
: Everyone - don't EVER use Lucida Console! :)
[snip]
: And, the U was barely distinguishable - _,_ looked like a straight line with
: a little bulgue on the bottom the middle. (the top of the comma lined up
: with the understroke, and the comma looked like a square itself)
Funny.. I'm viewing this right now with Lucida Console, and those three
characters look something like
####
####
######### ## #########
##
This in 9pt - I tried some other sizes, and none of them looked like what
you described.
As for the rest of your post, I agree that Lucida Console isn't a perfect
font for ascii. My own pictures in particular tend to look distorted in
it, but OTOH some people's art looks better in it. It all depends on the
artists' style and the font they use themselves.
--
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.----- On Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:05:47 -0800, Hilton Janfield posted:
|I decided to test other fonts on my system with this pic...
|Everyone - don't EVER use Lucida Console! :)
|This pic looked horrible in Lucida Console... the ()'s are far more rounded.
|Courier New | Lucida Console
| / \ | ,- -.
| | | | ( )
| \ / | '- -'
|And, the U was barely distinguishable - _,_ looked like a straight line with
|a little bulgue on the bottom the middle. (the top of the comma lined up
|with the understroke, and the comma looked like a square itself)
|
|Just a few complains about Lucida Console.. :)
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He Hehe Lucida Console is the font I use for everything asciiart related :o)
(Apart from Free Agent, which for some reason I have set to FixedSys)
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|P.S. Great pics Veronica, Joan, and everyone else! Gonna kick ass over my
|two :) (I don't know when the first one will be posted, but my second one
|will be on he 21st..)
|
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Awww Hilton, you're not supposed to tell them that - it's meant to be a
surprise :o)
-Martin
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