Tag Archives: japan

Jindai moji, supposedly used in Japan in the 17th century, via @tkasasagi.

Sharp MZ-700 character sets (Japanese first, European second), from sharpmz.org. See sharpscii graphics here.

From an MZ-80 game by Hudson. Full video here.

“It’s summer so it’s high. I also want to play Hansen Hogan in a beer garden. Wah-ha ha ha! !” source

140asciiart has been posting tons of tweets lately, where しょぼーん (shobōn) is holding various things.

lavamposto:

#Repost @letterformarchive
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Toshihiki Shimizu, Six Meditations, Japan, 1969


#type #graphicdesign #typedesign #lettering

Line-drawings (a) converted by two ASCII-converters (b,c), by a new deep learning technique (d) and by “artist” (e). You can try the deep ASCII converter on the web and read the recently published article here. Or at Motherboard.

By Yaco (Tumblr). h/t Tim Koch.

Crappy gif of Zalion, a good-looking text-mode game on the Japanese MZ-80 computer. Full video here, more sharpscii here. h/t: Tim Koch