Text art tools

california-og•about 9 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...

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.

citizenpaul•about 7 hours 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.

dddw•about 8 hours ago

Nice! Great goal and very cool zines!

california-og•about 8 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...

gottlobflegel•about 7 hours ago

How does notion manage to make this site, which is essentially just a static table, take several seconds to show any meaningful content?

california-og•about 7 hours ago

Tell me about it... I have plans to migrate this to a static HTML at some point.

cardboard9926•about 6 hours ago

How about are.na?

WillAdams•about 3 hours ago

Made me instantly think of Glenn Reid's nifty "TouchType.app" for the NeXT, which I still really miss --- these days I just convert to paths and use Macromedia Freehand/MX (or a proprietary tool for the CNC machine I support on the side).

aghilmort•about 3 hours ago

super cool roster! niche text generators come to mind, e.g., text version of regex train tracks / git traces come to mind. png/svg version https://regexper.com/#%5Cd%7B5%7D%28-%5Cd%7B4%7D%29%3F idk if any robust ascii lib exists, same for things like root cause or swimlanes etc.

have done some 1-off 1-shots of similar for AI input/output is primary frame of reference, and plenty of others have attempted same to varying success / nice to see ASCII graphics get some new life in them

primaprashant•about 6 hours 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/

scriptsmith•about 7 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/

ggeorgovassilis•about 6 hours ago

Wrote this for fun over a decade ago. Still around.

https://animasci.com/

agys•about 7 hours ago

The ASCII playground is missing: