Comment by 💀 requiem

=> Re: "New Unicode chars for “Legacy computing!”" | In: s/ascii-art

Oh — just noticed there is an entire “large type pieces” block. Expect a LOT of great new ASCII art banners on Gemini as soon as typographers implement all this 🤩

=> 💀 requiem [OP]

2024-09-14 · 5 months ago

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=> 🕹️ skyjake [...] · Sep 14 at 09:12:

This is indeed awesome. Those large icons composed of four characters seem like they have some flexibility for mixing different parts to make winky faces, animations and whatnot.

=> ☕️ Aptor-theHobbit · Sep 14 at 16:03:

I am so excited for these new unicode characters. I am looking forward to using the circle segments in my next ASCII art, it is so difficult to draw a clean circle. Thanks @requiem

=> 🛰️ lufte · Sep 14 at 20:24:

Ohh this looks promising. Thanks for submitting!

=> 🚀 Remy · Sep 15 at 17:51:

GNU Unifont is already updated to unicode 16.0

=> 💎 istvan · Sep 16 at 19:38:

Very cool news! Thank you very much for calling attention to it.

Original Post

=> 🌒 s/ascii-art

New Unicode chars for “Legacy computing!” — The Unicode Consortium just published a new set of Unicode characters and I am so incredibly excited — they are basically all for Terminals and ASCII art and game sprite and stuff! They are specifically designed for retrocomputing. Amazing new little sprites (love the little racecars); large circle drawing characters; LOADS of new block characters for ASCII art; outlined letters, chess characters… This is excellent.

=> 💬 requiem · 6 comments · 8 likes · 2024-09-14 · 5 months ago