Tag Archives: code

Here’s a few font experiments, more or less sensible, that you should be aware of:

  • Heikki Lotvonen’s text highlighting that is built into the font itself. Does not use HTML, CSS or Javascript.
  • llama.ttf that has an “AI” (LLM) built into the font itself, so when you write !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, every ! is replaced with a word. (check out the links at the bottom of that page too)
  • Fontemon – world’s first videogame in a font.

QLOCK – a tiny program (321 bytes) by Martin Kleppe that shows the time, while also displaying its own source code. Learn more here and run it here. We featured a similar work by Kleppe 10 years ago.

(This is called a quine, but here it’s also called code calligram)

Seohyo‘s interpretations of Jan van Eyeck’s Arnolfini Portrait (top) and Henri Matisse’s Two Musicians (bottom).

によるイース2オープニングデモ by かねごん, 2018. A five-minute demo in 34 kilobytes, running on the MZ-700. Full video.

All works in this post by Julian Hespenheide, 2023. link

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All works in this post by Julian Hespenheide, 2022. link

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BB – a demo for Unix and DOS made by four Czech teenagers in 1997: Jan Hubicka, Kamil Toman, Mojmir Svoboda and Filip Kupsa. They made a notorious library for ASCII-conversion, AA-lib, which was later used for example in Hasciicam and VLC (see Wikipedia). They also made Aview that lets you browse the web in ASCII, ASCII-3D-2000 that creates stereogram ASCII, and more. It’s a similar spirit to the ASCII Art Ensemble.

From here.

All the works in this post by Julian Hespenheide, 2023. link

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