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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-13 10:00:18

For #TextModeTuesday, some fonts from my old demoscene days, recreated in 2022 for an example project of my opensource libraries:
Figlet style text generator using big fonts:
demo.thi.ng/umbrella/big-font/

Screenshot of a proportional text-based typeface, with each character made up of box-drawing characters to create gradients within each letter form.
Screenshot of a proportional text-based typeface, with each character made up of box-drawing characters to create gradients within each letter form.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-06 16:53:24

Welcome to #TextModeTuesday! For the next few weeks I'll be posting some projects & experiments related to this just spontaneously made up hashtag. If you've got something related to interesting text-based art/experiments, patterns, ASCII-art, ANSI-art etc. please share — the more, the merrier...
To start with, here's an experiment from a few years ago to demonstrat…

Screenrecording of the linked demo, showing a rotating infinite 3D grid of colorful cube-like structures with smooth intersections. Every few seconds the animation cycles between different character sets used to represent the rendered frames as text.