I had to cut the width of a logo more than once. If you have to Cut Down on the Width of an ASCII I always started with something and made things up along the way, causing the final result to have little resemblance with what I started with.Ĥ. You don't always know that any of the things that I mentioned will happen to become a problem, when you start with a logo, unless you designed it already entirely in your head. Skull or anything else you can think of and that fits the general theme and fills the screen.around the logos made of 2-3 letters to give it the extra weight that you need. In those cases you have pretty much one option left and that is adding crap or if you are able to do so, a picture or an object of something else. Stretching the letters out often results in bad results also and if the logo was overstretched, which is actually the case hehe. You might get away with it with a black font on white background, but not the other way around. ![]() This is particularly true for logos in light font on a dark background. If the abbreviation is very short (like 2 characters only) and/or has shitty letters to work with, you will get another problem.The problem that the logo looks too empty. One possible work around that is the use of the abbreviation/initials or call signs of the name or title instead and only spell everything out in full, using either plain text or a very simple and basic block-ASCII font (almost like "ARIAL NARROW" type). You are very very limited with what you can do, to get at least the letters on the screen somehow, not to mention to maybe make it readable as well.īefore you know it, it will look ugly and overly crowded or compressed, like squeezed like a flounder fish. Working with only 79 characters, if you have a long word, is a bitch. I will also show solutions that I found for myself to remedy the effects caused by the imposed limitations of ASCII and ANSI text art. What is there to be ashamed of, if it is something that helped you to improve on yourself. The examples that I used above for ASCII art that exceeds the DOS Limitation of 79 Characters in Width, were not created by me, but those are good examples actually and nothing bad.I am making use of my privilege of using my own artwork for the bad examples or errors that can be made and which I did myself as well do of course. The ASCII that is at least as wide as the ASCII above.You see what I mean? Why care about old-school and the past, if you are not a child of that era.You can pay tribute to it and show respect, but you do not have to live by rules that were created because of the limitations of hard and software.Even SAC members didn't care about it anymore. Most people will probably look at the ASCII this way, which matters the most. I responded to him why he should want to do that. Guth contacted me, asking for help to reduce the width of this logo to be "old school conform". Even with a screen resolution of 1024x768 would the logo fit the screen.There is no limitation of 80 characters.īelow is a screenshot of an ASCII by Guth, loaded in Windows Notepad with using font "Terminal" for the display. I had no problem to look at your ASCII with notepad. Yeah, in DOS you have the line length limit of 80 characters, 79 actually, because if you have anything at the 80s character, DOS is automatically adding a line break already. Nowadays you should also consider search engines like Google who pick this stuff up.If the NFO does not include your group name a couple times in plain readable text (without 元3T spelling shit), your legacy will become hard to find in search engines. Your insider knowledge and experience though frequent exposure to this kind of art makes things appear easy to you, where "normal" people would probably fail doing it. Never make the mistake and assume that everybody else can read what it says, just because you are able to read it yourself. It helps people to identify quickly the name of your group, even if they are not used to looking and decipher ASCII art text logos at all. ![]() It is always good to add the name or title what the ASCII is supposed to mean below the logo in plain text. But, the logo on top of a release NFO-file also serves practical purposes, which we should at least acknowledge and never completely disregard. It is important that the logo looks cool at what that means is a matter of personal preference. It does not matter, if you create ASCII logos for an NFO-file that is good readable like most of mine or if you create abstract or grafitty-style like logos that people cannot even make heads or tail out, even if they know what the logos is supposed to say. Spell out In Plain Text once More What the Logo Says in ASCII If you have to Cut Down on the Width of an ASCIIġ.Spell out In Plain Text once More What the Logo Says in ASCII.This guide was written by Carsten Cumbrowski aka Roy/SAC in August 2009
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