Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 23 May 1994.
pls help improve 3-line font
alt.ascii-art
· 7 messages · 23 May 1994 - 29 May 1994
Not a whole font set, but the name of my machine in ascii. I mostly see
it in a bold font, where it is easily readable and needs no improvement...
with a normal font however, the shades are absolutely wrong and people
had a hard time figuring out what it meant...
dP"o dP""" .dP8. d8 dP.dP"o ** dP"Yo dP dP dP"""
dP""o dP"" d8oodP dP"bdP "bq. dP dP dP d8odP dP""
d8oo" d8ooo dP dP dP 8P "oodP dP d8odP' dP dP d8ooo
dP"o dP""" .dP8. db dP.dP"o * dPYo dP dP dP"""
dP""o dP"" d8oodP dP8dP "bq. dP dP dP d8odP dP""
d8oo" d8ooo dP dP dP 8P "oodP dP d8dP' dP dP d8ooo
.dP8.
dP""" d8oodP d8 dP
dP"o dP"" dP dP dP"bdP -
dP""o d8ooo dP 8P
d8oo" dP"Yo dP"""
** dP dP dP dP dP""
.dP"o dP d8odP' d8odP d8ooo
"bq. dP dP dP
"oodP
Oh well, yes, so far i made it myself and have borrowed other people's
ideas, beginning with old Gutenberg...
Problems are with the -S-, -B- and -E- where the shading is absolutely
wrong. There isn's suposed to be shadows at all, I meant it to look
just like some bold italic font.
The -I- has the known problem with the "*" asterisk that some fonts
have as a very bright space filling "=X=" symbol and others more like
a degree-sign or i-dot in the upper half of the line.
Any improvement or helpful advice is very welcome, email or posts alike.
Soeren // ISO 8859-1: S�ren
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Send money by fax to +49-55-1487-719
"one planet is all you get."
In article <199...@beansidhe.ms.sub.org> soe...@beansidhe.ms.sub.org (Soeren M Soerries) writes: > >Not a whole font set, but the name of my machine in ascii. I mostly see >it in a bold font, where it is easily readable and needs no improvement... >with a normal font however, the shades are absolutely wrong and people >had a hard time figuring out what it meant... > > dP"o dP""" .dP8. db dP.dP"o * dPYo dP dP dP""" > dP""o dP"" d8oodP dP8dP "bq. dP dP dP d8odP dP"" >d8oo" d8ooo dP dP dP 8P "oodP dP d8dP' dP dP d8ooo > Bean Fairies? *Shrug* Sayoonara, ====K------- ======= Chuckles
In article <199...@beansidhe.ms.sub.org> soe...@beansidhe.ms.sub.org (Soeren M Soerries) writes:
with a normal font however, the shades are absolutely wrong and people
had a hard time figuring out what it meant...
dP"o dP""" .dP8. d8 dP.dP"o ** dP"Yo dP dP dP"""
dP""o dP"" d8oodP dP"bdP "bq. dP dP dP d8odP dP""
d8oo" d8ooo dP dP dP 8P "oodP dP d8odP' dP dP d8ooo
Any improvement or helpful advice is very welcome, email or posts alike.
The problem is not with your font! It's with your machine name! :-)
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> Bean Fairies? *Shrug*
Yes. When good little children eat all their vegetables, then, on the
night of the blue moon, when everyone is fast asleep, the Bean Fairies
tunnel their way up from their dark, cool caverns beneath the earth.
Pop! Up through the grass, they sprout like little mushrooms with
bright red caps. And carefully through the windows, to where the good
children sleep, to leave little boxes of tofu beside their pillows.
Bad children get tofu without the boxes.
Seriously, "beansidhe" is the Gaelic root for "banshee".
About the 3-line font. '"' is probably the best character for filling
the upper half of a space. Since this isn't adequate, how about avoid
using the upper half. Something like this:
ooo, ooooo ,ooo, oo oo,ooo, oo ooo, oo oo ooooo
d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo, dP dP dP d8odP d8oo
d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo
If you want more definition, shift to a different style. Use
line-drawing characters, like this:
//==, //=== ,===, //| // //==, == //==, // // //===
//==< //== //==// //||// `==, // // // //==// //==
//==='//=== // // // |// `==// // //===' // // //===
fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Yes. When good little children eat all their vegetables, then, on the >night of the blue moon, when everyone is fast asleep, the Bean Fairies >tunnel their way up from their dark, cool caverns beneath the earth. >Pop! Up through the grass, they sprout like little mushrooms with >bright red caps. And carefully through the windows, to where the good >children sleep, to leave little boxes of tofu beside their pillows. >Bad children get tofu without the boxes. /me ROTFL! >About the 3-line font. '"' is probably the best character for filling >the upper half of a space. Since this isn't adequate, how about avoid >using the upper half. Something like this: > ooo, ooooo ,ooo, oo oo,ooo, oo ooo, oo oo ooooo > d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo, dP dP dP d8odP d8oo >d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo That's it! Thanks ooo. ooooo ,ooo. oo oo ,ooo. * ooo. oo oo ooooo d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo. op dP db d8odP d8oo d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP' dP d8ooP dP dP d8ooo >If you want more definition, shift to a different style. Use >line-drawing characters, like this: Uh, no, it doesn't look half as nice on my screen that way... ...but maybe I just prefer round forms in letters. Soeren / iso latin-1: S�ren -- Send money by fax to +49-55-1487-719 "one planet is all you get."
In article <CqC...@sun2.iusb.indiana.edu>, Chuckles the Great <cpu...@sun1.iusb.indiana.edu> wrote: > Bean Fairies? *Shrug* > Bean-Sidhe = BanShee, [Woman-Fairy] woman of the fairy fort, or fairy woman. Goes around wailing about death in the family and the like. Not to be confused with the welsh version, known as the Dribbling Hag :-} Dont you people ever read soc.culture.celtic ;-} BTW: Any knotwork, step pattern ascii work out there? owen -- thumbhere--------[ozzy: aph...@rowan.cov.ac.uk]--[IRC: ceugant]------thumbhere ****** Place your thumbs on the asterisks, close your eyes, ****** ******** breathe deeply, count to 10, then open them again. ******** ****** Let all that stress flow out..........:-) (NeXT mail welcome) ******
In article <FLE...@guardian.cse.psu.edu>, Felix Lee <fle...@cse.psu.edu> wrote: >> Bean Fairies? *Shrug* > >Yes. When good little children eat all their vegetables, then, on the >night of the blue moon, when everyone is fast asleep, the Bean Fairies >tunnel their way up from their dark, cool caverns beneath the earth. >Pop! Up through the grass, they sprout like little mushrooms with >bright red caps. And carefully through the windows, to where the good >children sleep, to leave little boxes of tofu beside their pillows. >Bad children get tofu without the boxes. > >Seriously, "beansidhe" is the Gaelic root for "banshee". > >About the 3-line font. '"' is probably the best character for filling >the upper half of a space. Since this isn't adequate, how about avoid >using the upper half. Something like this: > > ooo, ooooo ,ooo, oo oo,ooo, oo ooo, oo oo ooooo > d8oob d8oo d8oodP dP8dP 8oo, dP dP dP d8odP d8oo >d8ooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 8P booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo > >If you want more definition, shift to a different style. Use >line-drawing characters, like this: > > //==, //=== ,===, //| // //==, == //==, // // //=== > //==< //== //==// //||// `==, // // // //==// //== >//==='//=== // // // |// `==// // //===' // // //=== Here's a slight varianion. All I've done is use the g to reach down and close up the gaps. goog, goooo ,goo, g, ,g, goo, ,g goo, ,g ,g goooo g8o8 g8oo g8oogP gPN,gP 8og, gP gP gP g8ogP g8oo doooP'd8ooo dP dP dP 'dP booP'dP d8ooP'dP dP d8ooo I'm not sure if that's an improvement or what. Maybe somebody else can diddle it some more. Small 2, 3 and 4 line alphabets are interesting because of their use on system allowing only 4 lines on automatically included sigs. -- . . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. . . ------ ---=- .=-==-= .=#==##= :=##### .##=#= =##==#= . ==-=-- -=- --- --- ------- ---=-= -=-====# =#==#=#= #=###= =#=#== #=#==##= -=-==--- =-- .=-- --- --- --- . =-= :=-= -== :=## ### :::##= :..=#= .=== ==- .=-- -=- --- --- ------ -=- . -=-==-== =#==##= :#=### :##= .:.#===#== .-=- .-=- =-= -=- --- ------ --- .. --==--== ==##== .:####= :=#= ::.=#=#== ..==- --= -=- .--- --- --- =-- . -== .=-= #=# =## :### :::##= :..#=# === .=-- .-=- =-- =-- --- ------- ----=- =-= .-== =#= :##= =##### =##==# =#= .#== ==--=--- -=----------- ------ -=-== -=- :=-= =## .=## #=###= .##=#= ##= .=#= -==--= .=-=--=----- . . .. ... .:.. ...:..::.:::.::::::::.:::.::.:..:...:.. ..:. ... .. .. . .
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