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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
laemeur@mastodon.sdf.org ("LÆMEUR") wrote:

Needed an editor for making text art with the teletext characters up in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block of Unicode. Didn't find one that I liked, so I started making one.

You can play with it here: https://laemeur.com/psegrapai/

Here is a skull that I made with it today. And I pasted it into Emacs and cycled through a few fonts to see how it changed.

#textgraphics #illustration #nerdistry

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• gifv: An image of a skull drawn with Unicode semigraphics characters in a text editor. The image is animated, cycling through different fonts to show how they render it differently.