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> : My eye seems to track to individual line in the letter .. which makes it look crap..
but
> : if you view the letter as a shade then i suppose it looks good.
>
> It doesn't work well in courier - but something with less serifs like fixedsys
> is better.

I tried it. It still doesn't look good .... to ME.

> Its a matter of style yes. And wouldn't it be boring if we all had the same
> style? :)

Here in line draw :

__________________________________________\'
------------------------------------------' |
 ||                 /      \           || ,'
 ||                /________\ ,       _||'
 ||                |  ____  |   ' - '  ||
 ||                | |____| |    ,------------------.
 ||                |     [] | ___| i say let's take |
 ||                |        |    |   over this...   |
 ||                |        |    '------------------'
 ||                |        |          ||



And here with a different type of shading. (dbpq)

__________________________________________\'
------------------------------------------' |
 ||                 p      q           || ,'
 ||                d________b ,       _||'
 ||                |  ____  |   ' - '  ||
 ||                | |____| |    ,------------------.
 ||                |     [] | ___| i say let's take |
 ||                |        |    |   over this...   |
 ||                |        |    '------------------'
 ||                |        |          ||

I usually prefer dbpq when drawing something "solid"

__________________________________________\'
------------------------------------------' |
 ||                 p8####8q           || ,'
 ||                d8######8b ,       _||'
 ||                |01010101|   ' - '  ||
 ||                |10    10|    ,------------------.
 ||                |01010[]1| ___| i say let's take |
 ||                |10101010|    |   over this...   |
 ||                |01010101|    '------------------'
 ||                |10101010|          ||

:| nahh..