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I decided to whip together another tool for Gemini capsule makers: diglet. It’s like FIGlet, but instead of drawing text art with ASCII it uses Unicode pixels and dots. The fonts it draws with are all ripped from retro video games. Let me know what you think of it. gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/diglet/
4 months ago · 👍 cthulhu, ps, darryl, mimas, danrl, johano, mozz, lykso, m0xee
gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/diglet/
@dimkr That would be super cool! It's very, very simple code. You can adapt the image code any way you like and the imagemagick preprocessing can be done entirely in GD. I only offloaded it because imagemagick gave nicer results. · 4 months ago
@istvan Amazing! I'm thinking about doing something like this in tootik to preview images · 4 months ago
@dimkr I put the source into the public domain for the text art converter. Anyone is free to use it and do anything they want with it. Depends on PHP and ImageMagick. Just chmod 755 and make sure the shebang has the right path to your PHP binary. Diglet is just a layer before this that renders your text to a graphic first and then runs the graphic through this same script. gemini://git.brainsocks.xyz/textart/master/ · 4 months ago
gemini://git.brainsocks.xyz/textart/master/
Thank you! Keeping it a Gemini exclusive for now. I’m committed to creating things that only exist in Gemini-space right now because I want there to be unique content that gives people a reason to be using Gemini. I want to see this place grow.
You might also like my other tool which is the underlying tech for this. It converts images. gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/textart/ · 4 months ago
gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/textart/
@istvan This is so cool! Is there an offline version or source repo? · 4 months ago
@johano Thank you! I hope it can be a useful tool for capsule designers to decorate their pages. · 4 months ago
this is cool 😃 · 4 months ago
Don’t worry. From the logs you weren’t the only one. · 4 months ago
Oh, no, I did not read the instructions even a little bit 😅. Thanks! · 4 months ago
I forced lowercase on the font name. This should fix the problem if you were using a phone and it was autocorrecting the first word to a capital. Also added a fix for converting curly quotes to straight (problem again in phone input where it autocorrects to curly quotes). Hope it works for you now. · 4 months ago
@darryl Did you check your case and follow the directions? The first word of your input MUST be the font name you want to use, in the correct case.
I just used it. “finalfan User error” will print “User error” using the font from NES Final Fantasy. · 4 months ago
Hey that’s really cool, I love it!
The links to enter text and try it out just give me “Fatal Error: Invalid font "100". Please check your case.” though… · 4 months ago