Tag Archives: conversion

Typewriter map of Africa by the cartographer Daniel Huffman. It was done by resizing a map of Africa into 75×60 pixels, add a shaded relief, categorize each pixel according to intensity, convert it to ASCII, add details in Illustrator, and then type it on a typewriter.

More info and images here.

Heikki Lotvonen‘s reproduction of an 1860’s typographic ornamentation using his own Glyph Drawing software that you can try out here.

(First?) conversion from video to variable font text mode. Made by Toshi Omagari, via @pixelambacht.

By Ray Manta, @datad00r, using his own Circlex charset, now available in Retrospecs.

Datafall by Ray Manta, made with his custom charset in Retrospecs.

Clips from an ANSI conversion of Vlag by Gerrit van Dijk, 1972.

Animations by Ray Manta with the Tatung Einstein font, which is making its way into the Retrospecs app.