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Is Unicode art a thing? Is it hard to know that a viewer will have all Unicode fonts installed?
2023-10-13 · 3 weeks ago · 👍 IO, kleb
Yes it's a thing!
Unicode is so massive that you will typically see artists or scenes limit themselves to a subset of unicode characters. I see them most commonly shared as .png screenshots on social media sites like twitter and instragram (unfortunate, I know). I think the big reason for this comes down to portability. 99% of people just aren't using platforms like gemini that facilitate posting monospaced, hard-wrapped text.
Here's an artist "kurogao" who does some unique stuff with emojis.
— https://16colo.rs/artist/kurogao
This is a good overview for "textmode" art that breaks down some of the sub-categories.
— https://polyducks.co.uk/pages/what-is-textmode/
This is a long-running blog that posts all kinds of text art.
— https://text-mode.tumblr.com/
Delicious
Yes; even there's "Braille-art" using Unicode dots to create pretty faithful "images" on some gemini holes, such as the one from Peron at gemini://texto-plano.xyz/peron . The capsule it's in Spanish but you can appreciate the art.
Wow! Thanks for that introduction @mozz, I definitely fell down a rabbit hole there.
2023-10-14 · 3 weeks ago