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Unscii is great! A few years ago I made a simple mobile-friendly Unscii art editor: http://unicode-drawing-club.netlify.app/
Viznut also made a audio / visual live coding tool IBNIZ, used it for a performance once it's fire
I just tested and my local nerdfont[1] does not support a bunch of those graphical glyphs, perhaps that is something that could be added.
Site isn't loading but I have a neat side project that works with any monospace font that includes Unicode glyphs which converts raw binary to unicode and back while passing through 7-bit ASCII characters, replacing control characters with related symbol representations, and sticking with actually-monospace glyphs (a surprising number of glyphs break the width rule across various "monospace" fonts), while ALSO being denser and more directly legible than hex encoding: https://github.com/pmarreck/printable-binary
Each UTF8 character (1 to 3 bytes) corresponds to 1 byte of input data. The average increase in data size is about 70%, but you gain binary independence in any medium that understands utf8 (email, the terminal, unit tests, etc.)
This is perfect. I'm currently creating a MUD and these are exactly the kind of fonts I want. Thanks for sharing!
With sixel support finally comming to terminals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
we are full circle, 40 year later.
The favicon is either exactly or a really close copy of The Grate Book of Moo's logo. Hopefully that's not too obscure for Hacker News, but you never know.
This is conveniently timed, I was planning on doing a cool retro-y WindowMaker rice over christmas break. Better than Liberation Sans
> Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use.
It took several seconds to load for me, so here's the first paragraph. It's a good first paragraph, though!
Reminds me of UDG graphics on the sinclair spectrum. I like the example of the image in the article very cool art.
I like the look of this a lot! Especially how condensed it is, similar to my favorite monospace TrueType font Iosevka Term. The ANSI color rendering looks phenomenal.
I'll definitely give this a try in my Linux TTY. Thanks for sharing!
Can't wait until somebody makes a game hit in Steam using unscii as every UI in the game.
looks very useful. And skillful! Very careful typographic reasoning when creating the glyphs from the classic originals.
This would probably work great with the monospace web framework.
That ' is tilted kinda ruins it for me as a programming font, but otherwise looks really nice.
Oh hey, this is the font used by the Minecraft mod OpenComputers.
Slightly off-topic but related.
See also: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack from VileR at <https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/>.
I came across this website when I was looking for IBM PC OEM fonts for a little HTML + Canvas-based invaders-like game I was developing a few years ago. It is impressive how much effort VileR has poured into recovering each OEM font and their countless variants, from a wide range of ROMs. The site not only archives them all with incredible attention to detail, but also offers live previews, aspect ratio correction and other thoughtful features that make exploring it a joy. I've spent numerous hours there comparing different OEM fonts and hunting down the best ones to use in my own work!