california-og

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by california-og 3mo ago
Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!
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by california-og 3mo ago
Tell me about it... I have plans to migrate this to a static HTML at some point.
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by california-og 3mo ago
Slanted magazine did an issue recently on digital tools and compiled their own list: https://www.slanted.de/news/digital-tools/ The issue has screenshots of many of them: https://www.slanted.de/pro
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by california-og 3mo ago
This is my list, thanks for sharing! It started out as a list for ASCII and textmode art editors but grew to include all kinds of alternative design tools. I've hosted two workshops where the assigment is to create a printed zine witho
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by california-og 3mo ago
I made this, thank you so much for your kind words! The show source toggle is shamelessly stolen from another awesome blog, https://garten.salat.dev/
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by california-og 3mo ago
Maker here. Just found this thread... Thank you so much for your nice words! :)
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by california-og 4mo ago
Thank you for this! I had come across it by name before but totally forgot about it until you mentioned it again. I'll have to hunt it down, seems like some antique bookshops have it for a reasonable price.
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by california-og 4mo ago
Yes, I agree. Thank you for the advice and leads, much appreciated! I will dig into these. The archive is scoped to letterpress only, so that will automatically skew it more towards latin based typographic cultures, but I would like to find
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by california-og 4mo ago
Thank you! It has taken me a long time. The two main methods: 1. Text content search with keywords/sentences or people's names. This is the best way, but finding good keywords is hard. 2. Randomly browsing, especially typography t
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by california-og 4mo ago
Thank you! If you click on the images, you get a zoomable, full resolution view.
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by california-og 4mo ago
Definitely! Take a look at these books: —Fun with your typewriter by Madge Roemer https://archive.org/details/FunWithTypewriter/mode/thumb —Artyping by Julius Nelson https://archive.org/deta
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by california-og 4mo ago
Heh no worries and thanks! I love Arabic/Islamic calligraphy too, but I've had to leave out all calligraphic forms of text art (calligrammes, micrography, carmina figurata, 17th century european calligraphic art, etc..) out of the
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Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art(garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com)
162 points by california-og 4mo ago|28 comments
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by california-og 6mo ago
I keep a list of all current ASCII art (and related + other creative tools) editors out there, if you're interested: https://hlnet.notion.site/text-art-tools I recommend Moebius for traditional ASCII and ANSI art.
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by california-og 6mo ago
https://nitter.net/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234#m
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The Future of Text Layout Is Not CSS(twitter.com)
4 points by california-og 6mo ago|1 comments
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by california-og 7mo ago
I made a syntax highlighting font (also mentioned as an inspiration to Z80 sans): https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/font-with-built-in-syntax-hig...
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by california-og 7mo ago
I made a paint app for toddlers recently, exactly because I couldn't find anything fun & useable & educational: https://glyphdrawingclub.itch.io/mr-baby-paint
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by california-og 8mo ago
Thank you! :)
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by california-og 8mo ago
I made an interactive viewer some time ago (scroll down a bit): https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/the-origins-of-del-0x7f-and-i... It really helps understand the logic of ASCII.
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by california-og 9mo ago
I didn't mean to imply that I find all positive content boring — just the kind of positive content that would rise to /r/all in reddit at that time, which was mostly quickly digestable content (like animal pictures). And it w
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by california-og 9mo ago
I also found it a very good thing. After the API use ban, and losing my blocklist, I couldn't go back to browsing normal reddit anymore and was finally able to quit after 10+ years. And, it has made me very resistant to joining or doom
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by california-og 9mo ago
Back when Reddit allowed API access, I used a reader (rif) which allowed blocking subreddits. I did an experiment where I would browse /r/all and block any subreddit that had a toxic, gruesome, nsfw, or other content playing on n
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by california-og 9mo ago
My go-to site for Unicode symbols is graphemica.com. I like that you show very directly the different use cases, but miss different encodings and the ability to browse unicode sequentially.
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by california-og 10mo ago
I think you're seriously confused or purposefully trolling. That's not the web component I'm talking about, that's just plain html.
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by california-og 10mo ago
That's for the code-editor webcomponent, the rest of the site doesn't use JS.
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by california-og 10mo ago
I'm 100% sure it does. Check again.
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by california-og 10mo ago
Most likely because your JS blocker also blocks custom fonts. It works fine without JS.
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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting (2024)(blog.glyphdrawing.club)
153 points by california-og 10mo ago|37 comments
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by california-og 10mo ago
Unscii is great! A few years ago I made a simple mobile-friendly Unscii art editor: http://unicode-drawing-club.netlify.app/

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