Cool! My first stab at this used an embedded dos @font-face (I think there's a branch in the repo) but I found the canvas text API too limited: it's a huge batt

Cool! My first stab at this used an embedded dos @font-face (I think there's a branch in the repo) but I found the canvas text API too limited: it's a huge battle to control things like kerning and aliasing in a way that works across browsers, for example. I really wanted things to be pixel-perfect, so I ultimately decided to dump the actual bitmap font into a hex array and do the rendering myself. I am hoping (perhaps naively) that rendering to a canvas element will inspire people to do creative things. It'd be awesome to combine this with something like three.js and create 3D ANSI art (by interpreting darkness as depth, for example).