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Very cool! I was considering getting into pixel art as well as ASCII art, and this looks like a great resource! Is there a book or something anywhere that tel

Very cool! I was considering getting into pixel art as well as ASCII art, and this looks like a great resource! Is there a book or something anywhere that tells you how to print different color characters/backgrounds to the terminal or to the screen? I know how to do this in CSS on a webpage, but not on a terminal. Also, is there a way to see all of the characters in a specific font? The only thing that shows for me when I try to preview a font in Windows is "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 1234567890" which is great for writing, but not so great for art.

jaclaz 10y ago
There are tools for that, a good simple one (IMHO ) is "Unicode Font Viewer": http://www.soft-gems.net/index.php/tools/unicode-font-viewer http://www.soft-gems.net/index.php/tools/unicode-font-viewer For some more sophisticated browsing of Unicode fonts (actually more "Unicode availability"), this is good: http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html http://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
Nzen 10y ago
It depends upon your chosen medium. For most terminals, you could print ansi escape codes to color sections of the text output. As with any software, there are disjoint sets of coverage. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-with-colors-using-python http://stackoverflow.com/questions/287871/print-in-terminal-... On the other hand, I've seen a number of node.js based terminals, that could be used similarly. https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/ While the other suggestion for unicode text viewer is fine, I've used font forge to see the rest of some fonts.