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ASCII-art iPhone screenshots

I wanted to show you all a screenshot of my iPhone. However, I donโ€™t want to add images to this capsule, so that left me with a bit of a dilemma. Then I realized that I could just make an ASCII-art iPhone, and have that.

Since we all see plenty of ASCII art in Geminispace but nobody talks about how to make any, I figured this might be more interesting than my least interesting post here.

First, letโ€™s log our requirements.

I figure that the hard part will be figuring out the width. Letโ€™s look at the top. Hereโ€™s what we need to have room for:

Then thereโ€™s everything else, really. We need it to be as wide as it needs to be to hold:

The height of the ASCII art should be tall enough to match the dimensions set by the widest width, whatever on-screen element that ends up being.

Oddly enough, all this will probably not fit on an iPhone screen unless the font is super tiny.

Letโ€™s implement the top chunk and see what we get:

โ•ญโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฎ
โ”‚   23:59     โ”‚o o -- o oโ”‚.ฤฑiI LTE [โ–Š] โ”‚
โ”‚.ฤฑiI LTE [โ–Š] โ•ฐโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฏ             โ”‚

The top and sides are Box Drawing elements. โ€œฤฑโ€ is a Turkish dotless i and the โ–Š is a three-quarters-full Block Element.

I copied the right-side things over to the left side to check widths, and I added a bunch of space over on the top left, around the time display, to put the notch dead center. I couldnโ€™t find a good circle with something in it that pairs with a circle that doesnโ€™t have something in it. o/0 are different sizes and shapes on most fonts, and O is just too tall and narrow anyway.

What? U+2502 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT VERTICAL isnโ€™t in ASCII? Hereโ€™s a nickel, grandpa โ€” get a computer that can run Windows 2000.

Now then. How much text can fit across a normal iPhone screen? In order to find out, Iโ€™m going to use a test 100-character string composed of only lowercase and uppercase Is. The tenth character is uppercase because counting by tens is easier than counting by ones when you get close to 100:

iiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiI

Now, to paste it in as many writing apps as I can and see how wide everything is.

Letโ€™s just round this to an even 100. Add some space for button and UI elements and letโ€™s see what we get. One nice thing about Visual Studio Code is that itโ€™ll show you how many columns you have selected, letting you find out if thereโ€™s an equal amount of space on both the left and right sides of the notch.

โ•ญโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฎ
โ”‚   23:59                                      โ”‚o o -- o oโ”‚                .ฤฑiI LTE [โ–Š]                  โ”‚
โ”‚                                              โ•ฐโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฏ                                              โ”‚
โ”‚โ•ญโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฎโ”‚
โ”‚โ”‚โ•ญโ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ”€โ•ฎโ”‚โ”‚
โ”‚โ”‚โ”‚iiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIiiiiiiiiiIโ”‚โ”‚โ”‚

Well, I wasnโ€™t quite expecting this. If you have enough room for the widest possible text thatโ€™ll fit on an iPhone in portrait orientation, itโ€™ll look more like a 12.9โ€ณ iPad Pro in portrait orientation. Seems like the winning play is to size the meat of your on-screen elements, then adjust the top of the ASCII art to match.

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