Text art tools

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38 points | by surprisetalk 3 days ago

7 comments

  • california-og 3 hours 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 without the use of any Adobe software. I give this list to the participants to explore. The scans of these zines and more info can be found here:

    https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...

    https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...

    I think its crazy that my University (Aalto) pays over a million euros in licencing fees to Adobe every year while the design teachers are chronically overworked and understaffed. My ultimate goal is to persuade the institution to ditch Adobe and switch to FOSS tools, and hire more staff & teachers.

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    • dddw 2 hours ago
      Nice! Great goal and very cool zines!
    • citizenpaul 1 hour ago
      One of the.big hurdles is pantone support. At some point most places want their design to hit the real world and pantone has that market cornered. I dont just mean the technical parts pantone has expensive licensing that most FOSS doesnt and wont ever pay.

      There is more than one toll troll.in that marker.

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      • bartvk 1 hour ago
        I am guessing that pantone is a bunch of colors that are coded a certain way? Isn't there a common mechanism across design software? Like PDF is the platform agnostic way of sharing documents?
  • primaprashant 55 minutes ago
    I built this [1] for myself so that I can comment lgtm in PR comments with an ASCII art. Pretty silly but fun.

    [1]: LGTM ASCII Art as a Service - https://lgtms.app/

  • california-og 3 hours 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/product/slanted-magazine-47-digital-t...

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    • agys 31 minutes ago
      The layout of the publication is almost unbearable… Considering that it’s a magazine a bout (graphic-) design I’d say they failed miserably.
  • ggeorgovassilis 48 minutes ago
    Wrote this for fun over a decade ago. Still around.

    https://animasci.com/

  • scriptsmith 2 hours ago
    I made these to create styled text art for the MOTD of my university's HPC login node:

    https://github.com/ScriptSmith/tart

    https://tart.sh/

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  • gottlobflegel 1 hour ago
    How does notion manage to make this site, which is essentially just a static table, take several seconds to show any meaningful content?
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    • california-og 1 hour ago
      Tell me about it... I have plans to migrate this to a static HTML at some point.
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  • agys 1 hour ago
    The ASCII playground is missing:

    https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz