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The ASCII art that these folks did to set up their chapter headings was beautiful. I remember seeing them making huge block lettering, scenery, and even charact
by vnxli 6y ago
The ASCII art that these folks did to set up their chapter headings was beautiful. I remember seeing them making huge block lettering, scenery, and even characters drawn in ASCII art just to give an intro to like a GameBoy game walkthrough. The love and effort poured into these showed
- fakedang 6y agoI thought those were auto-generated somehow. Never suspected that people actually put effort into them!
- Sharlin 6y agoOf course they did and do. ASCII art is, well, literally art, and "ASCII typography" is one of its subgenres.
- egypturnash 6y agoSome of both, look into Figlet and you’ll probably see a lot of fonts you recognize from guides, there are tools to turn images into text... but there are also specialized text editors designed for Drawing Stuff, as well.
- glaberficken 6y agoIn the mid 2000s I had a job building html marketing emails (legal "spam" basically). The main targets were enterprise tech managers. I quickly found out that we could double the click rate on the emails by including a plain text version (Lotus Notes email client was still a thing and many tech people had it set to read only the plain text mime part of emails). Clients were scepticall at first because they wanted to make sure that the user was seeing all the visual branding in the html+images. To convince them, I started using gamefaq style ASCII typography tricks to make a visual representation of the layout. It worked great.