[HN Gopher] Jgs Font
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       Jgs Font
        
       Author : debesyla
       Score  : 129 points
       Date   : 2024-06-11 07:36 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (adelfaure.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (adelfaure.net)
        
       | dalton01 wrote:
       | Clicked every button. Maybe the most aesthetically pleasing
       | website I've seen in a while
        
         | rvnx wrote:
         | This website feels oddly relaxing, like if stuck in the 90s.
        
           | 082349872349872 wrote:
           | pre-90s even. (or should that be <pre> 90s?)
        
       | emrikol wrote:
       | I haven't thought about Joan in years. I used to frequent the
       | ASCII art newsgroups in the late 90s as a teenager.
       | 
       | I hope wherever they are, they are doing well knowing that they
       | are a tiny bit of Internet history.
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Adel wrote a nice little article about the ASCII art history and
       | the font here: https://velvetyne.fr/news/about-ascii-art-and-jgs-
       | font/
        
       | dur-randir wrote:
       | Fonts files fail some 'system validation' on Mac for me. Does
       | anyone know what's that about and how to fix it?
        
       | letmeinhere wrote:
       | How are some of the jgs9 glyphs perfectly smooth? e.g the
       | infinity symbol
        
         | doodpants wrote:
         | I assume that those are placeholders for characters not yet
         | present in the font?
        
         | lelandfe wrote:
         | In Chrome Dev Tools, we can inspect those glyphs by scrolling
         | to the bottom of the Computed styles tab. The sibling commenter
         | is correct: they don't exist in the font yet, and are falling
         | back to the browser default: https://i.imgur.com/nq8Qdct.png
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | compare
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedroom_in_Arles#/media/File:V...
       | with _Interior_.
        
       | MitPitt wrote:
       | I think this is an awesome font for Dwarf Fortress in particular
        
       | rickcarlino wrote:
       | Does anyone know what happened to jgs?
        
       | username923409 wrote:
       | are the fonts very green at 1x size (setting at the top) for
       | anyone else? for an extreme example, the dense mesh pattern at
       | the end of "continuous characters" is filled with light green
       | instead of white on my display. just wondering if this is an
       | artifact of my subpixel font antialiasing settings or if that's
       | baked in...
        
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