[HN Gopher] Spleen Monospaced Bitmap Fonts
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Spleen Monospaced Bitmap Fonts
Author : keyle
Score : 29 points
Date : 2025-11-26 05:33 UTC (5 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Did the ASCII art in the README get mangled?
| duskwuff wrote:
| No, it's just an odd style of lettering inspired by graffiti
| throw-ups. I think this style is popular in the warez
| community.
|
| (It just says "spleen". Nothing exciting.)
| jasonjmcghee wrote:
| Thanks - really had no clue. Turns out reading warez-style
| ascii art is not my forte!
| unwind wrote:
| TIL the term "throw-up", thanks!
|
| It's weirding me out that Wikipedia's page features graffiti
| of the word ... SPLEEN to illustrate [1]. Wut.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throw_up_(graffiti)
| duskwuff wrote:
| It's amazing how things come full circle sometimes.
| tolerance wrote:
| Guy's been getting up.
| Karliss wrote:
| Using the font itself and setting line spacing to 1 instead of
| whatever Github uses makes it slightly easier to understand.
| duskwuff wrote:
| I'm not sure I like it. A lot of the character shapes (like the C
| and S) feel too rectangular at large sizes. At smaller sizes,
| some of the alternate character shapes like the Y, and the
| rounded corners on characters like F and L, harm readability.
| chasil wrote:
| This is the console font for OpenBSD (on x86-64, at least).
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