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From: dissel@nunic.nu.edu (David S. Issel)
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Subject: Talk-Line: 1.5 line font
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+------ Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote: -----------
|
[first version of my font placed into the bit bucket]
|
|    I imagine that the 1.5 line font would be good if you were working in 
| a small space, and you needed a little more room between the graphic and 
| the lettering.

That was my thoughts on it exactly.

I designed it on a 50 line VGA display and posted it before I viewed it in
25 line mode.  Oops! Boy was it ugly.

I played with it some more before I put it away:

1.5 line font by DSI

|\  |) /~ |~) |[ |[ /~_ |_| |   | |/ |  |\/| |\| (~) |) (~) |)
'~` '' `- '-' `- '  `-' ' ' ' `-' '` `- '  ' ' ' `-' '  `-+ '`

(~ ~|~ | | | / | | \/ \/ ~/
-'  '  `-' `'  `^' '` -' '-

I'll leave the numbers (and punctuation) up the the real ascii artists.

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