Tag Archives: unicode

Topaz Unicode by Screwtape, 2024. Adds a rich set of Unicode characters to the default Amiga 500 font, and offers it as a TTF-font. New characters include

  • all the Windows Glyph List 4 characters, including Cyrillic, Greek, and the MS-DOS CP437 symbols
  • everything in the Box Drawing Unicode block
  • everything in the Block Elements Unicode block
  • a lot of things in the Symbols for Legacy Computing Unicode block
  • anything else that caught my eye or seemed useful

The font is available as TTF at GitLab.

h/t: Ne7

Max Cooper – Symphony in Acid. Animation by Ksawery Komputery. It actually runs in the browser with the default font. See for yourself.

A tweetable program by Andy Wallace (@andymakes games) that you can play with here.

t=0 draw=_=>{createCanvas(w=400,w) t+=0.006 for(y=0;y<41;y++)for(x=0;x<41;x++)text(String.fromCodePoint(floor(9472+(noise(50-x*.02,y*.02,t)+noise(t*1.1,x*.1,y*.1))*140)),x*10,y*10);}

Chafa converts images or video to text in a terminal, and there are plenty of settings to play with. Made by Hans Petter Jansson.

This recent Unicode-proposal about 8-bit character sets is a great initiative, although it only includes platforms that were popular in USA and UK. For now. ;) The uncredited PETSCII Darth Vader is by Ailadi, btw.

Terminal graphics has a new technique to convert pixel images to text. It combines ANSI shading, Unicode blocks and true color and the results can be displayed in a terminal (given the right font and terminal software). More details here.

Made by Tim C. Schröder, 2016.