Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 19 Aug 1999.
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What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? -- __________________________________________________ Greetingz D@NIEL __________________________________________________ Bezoek de Anti-Jos Verstappen site: http://huizen.dds.nl/~anti-jos ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
anything that is fixed width... like courier or fixedsys (to name two) just to do a simple test make sure that the following two lines are the same width: WWWWWWWWWW IIIIIIIIII "D@NIEL" wrote: > > What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? > > -- > > __________________________________________________ > Greetingz > D@NIEL > __________________________________________________ > Bezoek de Anti-Jos Verstappen site: http://huizen.dds.nl/~anti-jos > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Anig ilo...@cheerful.com ____ ____ ____ ____ ||i |||l |||m |||k || ||__|||__|||__|||__|| |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| I Love My Kitty
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200, "D@NIEL"
<dan...@hetnet.nl> quoth:
>What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art??
Andale Mono.
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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).
Lennert Stock wrote: > Krogg 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. I think different fonts tend to "inspire" different styles. E.g. I don't like to use commas since they look "curly" in the font I use, but when I made some pictures on a PC once I found myself typing commas anyway (they looked like little lines in that font, I think it was FixedSys). Also, the font I use is quite wide, so I noticed that my big self portrait lost a few kg when I looked at in in a different font... > 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 > That's a very "heavy" font! Those solid pictures look good in it. :-) Here's the same font with one of my pictures: http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pig_Krogg.gif And the way it looked when I made it: http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pig_VK.gif > (for those ascii-history-aware, among others there's > Row's 'Pussy' picture, one of the all time greats, in > its original font). How I'm used to seeing it: http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pussy.gif And my waterfall picture: http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/waterfall.gif -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:23:20 +0200, Veronica Karlsson <aci...@earthling.net> wrote: >> 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 >> > >That's a very "heavy" font! Exactly, fonts/text are now more spacious and spacy in general, 'cause there are much more pixels to play around with. >How I'm used to seeing it: > >http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pussy.gif Not too bad a font, looks like system or something? >And my waterfall picture: > >http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/waterfall.gif Modern font..oh wait..hmm looks like you're using a -real- OS :)
Lennert Stock wrote: > Veronica Karlsson wrote: > > > >How I'm used to seeing it: > > > >http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/pussy.gif > > Not too bad a font, looks like system or something? > "9x15" > >And my waterfall picture: > > > >http://jota.sm.luth.se/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/waterfall.gif > > Modern font..oh wait..hmm looks like you're using a -real- OS :) :) -- (, http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/cgi/asciichat/ /|__--__ . __--__ |\ '__ /|\ _{ _ `.' / `.,_ _________ | _________ _,.' (/ `. / ||``._.' ASCII ART CHAT! `---'|:||,/ .' /| /|:| \ .' /\ \ __ __ _ `/|'\' ` `,/ /`,\ \ \ / /__ _ _ ___ _ _ (_)__ __ _ /,'\ \ .'.' /| \ V / -_) '_/ _ \ ' \| / _/ _` | |\ `.`. ,' / / | \_/\___|_| \___/_||_|_\__\__,_| | \ \ `, - `- -- `-'- -ejm-------------------------------------VK-- -`-' -- -' -
I want to thank everybody who replied my question. Thanks! -- __________________________________________________ Greetingz D@NIEL __________________________________________________ Visit the Anti-Jos Verstappen site: http://huizen.dds.nl/~anti-jos --------------------------------------------------------------------------- D@NIEL <dan...@hetnet.nl> schreef in berichtnieuws OwyPBuo6#GA.300@net003s... > What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? > > -- > > __________________________________________________ > Greetingz > D@NIEL > __________________________________________________ > Bezoek de Anti-Jos Verstappen site: http://huizen.dds.nl/~anti-jos > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > > > > >
"D@NIEL" wrote: > > What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? > > -- > > __________________________________________________ > Greetingz > D@NIEL > __________________________________________________ > Bezoek de Anti-Jos Verstappen site: http://huizen.dds.nl/~anti-jos > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any "fixed with" or "non proportional" font.... But my vote goes to "Topaz new2" by Al Tinsley, specialy made for ascii art.You can find it at my page,follow the url in my sig. There is a list around here somewhere of most of the fixed width fonts...maybe some one will post it.... -- |"""""<`.THE PRINCE ,'>"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""| | `.`/""""""\,',' my sig is too big, | |SEE HIS ( / \ \' SEE HIS but its really cool. | | FACE \/<> <>\/ SMILE | | / W \ Visit my ascii art site: | | ,'\_|||||_/`. http://www.gtcom.net/~krogg/ascii/ | | ,',' ||| `.`. kro...@gtcom.net | |____<,' TIME TO DIE `.>____Remove no.to.spam to reply____|
Clover <clo...@easystreet.con> wrote in message news:37b...@news.easystreet.com... > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200, "D@NIEL" > <dan...@hetnet.nl> quoth: > > >What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? > > Andale Mono. Chillun, chillun.... The best askee font? Wahl... that dee-pends. I prefer Topaz new, fer most stuff. But sum stuff look better in Fixedsys. Sometimes a big big picher looks good in something like Lucinda Console. I have been tryin' this here Andale Mono font, and I lak it, purty good, fer a lot of thangs. Point bein', I reckon it dee-pend on the picher. JRO
.----- On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200, D@NIEL posted: |What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? | '---------------------------------- Anything in the list in this file: http://website.lineone.net/~martin.atkins/ada/aaaminifaq.txt Kind Regards, -Martin |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
Lennert Stock <l...@gate99.nl> wrote in message news:37b...@news.multiweb.nl... > 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 Thanks for sticking up this great demo, Lennert. JRO
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