From: "D@NIEL" Subject: Font type Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200 Lines: 16 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art NNTP-Posting-Host: hgv0025-1.dial.wxs.nl 195.121.139.25 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!news.datacomm.ch!newscore.gigabell.net!newscore.ipf.de!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!gate.news.unisource.nl!194.151.104.156.MISMATCH!master.news.hetnet.nl!news2.hetnet.nl 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###### Message-ID: <37BC83B0.B61CCFCB@cheerful.com> From: Anig Organization: ascii addicts anonymous X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:22:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.112.107.112 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc1.on.home.com 935101371 24.112.107.112 (Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:22:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:22:51 PDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc1.on.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail 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 ilovemykitty@cheerful.com ____ ____ ____ ____ ||i |||l |||m |||k || ||__|||__|||__|||__|| |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| I Love My Kitty ###### From: clover@easystreet.con (Clover) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Message-ID: <37bc98b7.17885671@news.easystreet.com> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 15 NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.103.58.17 X-Trace: typ12.nn.bcandid.com 935106779 206.103.58.17 (Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:52:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 19:52:59 EDT Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:52:46 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!newscore.univie.ac.at!europa.netcrusader.net!206.132.58.119!gw12.nn.bcandid.com!gate.bCandid.com!typ12.nn.bcandid.com.POSTED!not-for-mail On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200, "D@NIEL" quoth: >What's the best Font-type to view ASCII-art?? Andale Mono. ;*) -- __ ,=. ,=" "==.__.=" o".___ ___ _ ,=.=." ___/ / __| |_____ _____ _ _ ,==.," \ \ ,==="" | C__| L o\ V / e_) r_| > ,==.==,"'"=\_/====" \___|_\___/\_/\___|_| `==' cf @easystreet.com ###### Message-ID: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> From: Krogg Reply-To: krogg.no.to.spam@gtcom.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en-US,en-GB,en,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 34 Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:33:29 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.6.67.124 X-Trace: eagle.america.net 935127273 12.6.67.124 (Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:34:33 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:34:33 EDT Organization: 24hoursupport.com Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!falcon.america.net!eagle.america.net.POSTED!not-for-mail "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/ | | ,',' ||| `.`. krogg.no.to.spam@gtcom.net | |____<,' TIME TO DIE `.>____Remove no.to.spam to reply____| ###### From: "JRO" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <37bc98b7.17885671@news.easystreet.com> Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:57:28 -0500 Lines: 25 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.141.24.199 Message-ID: <37bd080a@206.103.97.91> X-Trace: 20 Aug 1999 02:47:22 -0600, 209.141.24.199 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!remarQ73!supernews.com!remarQ.com!news.good.net!206.103.97.91!209.141.24.199 Clover wrote in message news:37bc98b7.17885671@news.easystreet.com... > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:17:00 +0200, "D@NIEL" > 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 ###### From: ls@gate99.nl (Lennert Stock) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 17:04:45 GMT Organization: News Service (http://www.news-service.com/) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <37bd87d6.3176350@news.multiweb.nl> References: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.114.238.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news-fra1.dfn.de!news0.de.colt.net!colt.net!news-x.support.nl!News-Service!not-for-mail On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:33:29 -0400, 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. 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). ###### From: ls@gate99.nl (Lennert Stock) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:02:07 GMT Organization: News Service (http://www.news-service.com/) Lines: 33 Message-ID: <37bda44e.10464675@news.multiweb.nl> References: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> <37bd87d6.3176350@news.multiweb.nl> <37BD9D18.15B@earthling.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.114.238.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news-x.support.nl!News-Service!not-for-mail On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:23:20 +0200, Veronica Karlsson 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 :) ###### From: Veronica Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 20:23:20 +0200 Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 71 Message-ID: <37BD9D18.15B@earthling.net> References: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> <37bd87d6.3176350@news.multiweb.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: my21.sm.luth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-peer-europe.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!feed2.news.luth.se!luth.se!news.luth.se!not-for-mail 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-- -`-' -- -' - ###### From: "D@NIEL" References: Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:19:23 +0200 Lines: 34 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Message-ID: Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art NNTP-Posting-Host: hgv0026-1.dial.wxs.nl 195.121.139.26 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!isdnet!newsfeed.tli.de!newscore.gigabell.net!newscore.ipf.de!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!gate.news.unisource.nl!194.151.104.156.MISMATCH!master.news.hetnet.nl!news1.hetnet.nl 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 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 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > > > > > > ###### From: Veronica Karlsson Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 23:29:55 +0200 Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <37BDC8D3.62EF@earthling.net> References: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> <37bd87d6.3176350@news.multiweb.nl> <37BD9D18.15B@earthling.net> <37bda44e.10464675@news.multiweb.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: my21.sm.luth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!feed2.news.luth.se!luth.se!news.luth.se!not-for-mail 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-- -`-' -- -' - ###### From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Font type Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 02:21:33 GMT Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Lines: 13 Message-ID: <37bde499.26618410@news.vossnet.net> References: Reply-To: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Host: serv1.vossnet.co.uk X-Trace: news1.cableinet.co.uk 935202470 12719 195.188.10.2 (21 Aug 1999 02:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@cableinet.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 1999 02:27:50 GMT X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!newshunter!cosy.sbg.ac.at!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed.tli.de!newsfeed.wirehub.nl!news5.cableinet.net!cableinet-uk!news1.cableinet.co.uk!not-for-mail .----- 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 ###### From: "JRO" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <37BCE8A9.79F448B3@gtcom.net> <37bd87d6.3176350@news.multiweb.nl> Subject: Re: Font type Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:57:32 -0500 Lines: 28 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.141.24.134 Message-ID: <37bee61f@206.103.97.91> X-Trace: 21 Aug 1999 12:47:11 -0600, 209.141.24.134 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!nntp.abs.net!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews!news.good.net!206.103.97.91!209.141.24.134 Lennert Stock wrote in message news:37bd87d6.3176350@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