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From: Al Tinsley <alt@hangar18.nospam.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: What font do you use?
Date: 1997/09/08
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In article: <19970908184900.OAA23923@ladder02.news.aol.com>  spunk1111@aol.com 
(Spunk1111) writes:
>
>In article <01bcb252$1627c9e0$da3d63c3@default>, "Jacaranda Jim"
><jacaranda@btinternet.com> writes:
>>> I'm curious as to what font people use to create and view their
>>> ASCII-art.
>I create with FixedSys in Windows notepad...
>Works easily and just save as a txt file...
>-joan
>-- 

I can't pass up a plugging opportunity like this :)

I use Topaz New in Wordpad...I miss the old days of netting on my
Amiga when the ASCII art just looked so cool in the standard Amiga
font 'Topaz 8', and when I got a PC and saw the same ASCII's in 
FixedSys or Courier they just didn't shine so bright...so after many,
many hours of unsuccessful searching for a Topaz ttf for the PC I
got hold of a typeface designer and made my own topaz font! I called
it Topaz New and made it freely available to all from my web page :-

http://www.hangar18.demon.co.uk

.and it *is* good for ASCII art. It does take a bit of getting used to
for reading normal text though.

I suggest all ASCII artists or Amiga nostalgics (sorry, it's *not* dead
yet is it ;) with a PC or who can use truetype fonts at least try out
Topaz New - oh go on - please? :)

Al.
-- 
"It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one."
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