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X sometimes used as a solid style filler or for connecting diagonal lines
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Y used in connecting diagonal lines and in some styles also for vertical
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lines and other things
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Z not commonly used
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a sometimes used as eyes or as a solid style antialiaser
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b good for solid antialiasing (the pair is d)
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c sometimes used as eyes/noses or as a solid style antialiaser
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d a common solid style antialiaser
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e sometimes used as eyes or as a solid style antialiaser
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f sometimes used for slanted vertical lines
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g not commonly used
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h sometimes used as a solid style filler or antialiasing
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i not commonly used
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j useful for slanted vertical lines, sometimes antialiasing too
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k used in slanted vertical lines in some line art styles
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l for vertical lines in lineart, sometimes solid antialiasing too
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m good for solid antialiasing
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n good for solid antialiasing
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o for lineart and solid antialiasing
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p good for solid antialiasing (the pair is q), sometimes P is better even
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though it doesn't have a symmetric pair
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r sometimes used in lineart
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s sometimes used for solid antialiasing
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t sometimes used in lineart
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u sometimes used in lineart
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v sometimes used in lineart, though might suffer from the same problem as V
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w sometimes used for solid antialiasing.
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x for connecting lines in lineart
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z not commonly used
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4 Fixed-width fonts
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ASCII art needs to be viewed on a fixed-width font. The fonts have differences,
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so even though it's not a good idea to "optimize" your picture for a particular
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font, it's completely ok to say "best viewed with a Lucida Console, preferably
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a small font size and white on black". Most of the fonts I list are free of
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cost and TrueType/OpenType, usable on eg. Windows, Linux and Macintosh. There
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are also other choices for other operating systems, commercial font faces and
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several fonts that can only be acquired with a particular piece of software.
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4.1 Courier New
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Courier New is the font that looks like a typewriter. It's very wide, which can
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sometimes cause problems. It's not particularly aesthetical either. Most people
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use it as their fixed-width font for web browsing.
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4.2 MS-DOS font
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The 80x25 DOS font is cool, especially for solid art, or maybe it's just the
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white on black. The 80x50 one is less cool.
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4.3 Topaz New
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Topaz is the font used by the operating system of the Amiga computer and Topaz
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New is a TrueType version of it. It's very narrow, but quite thick and well
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suited for ASCII art. You can download it on the Internet.
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4.4 Lucida Console
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Lucida Console was introduced in Windows 98 and is nowadays the default font in
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Notepad. It's an ordinary sans serif font, quite decent, but may have
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unpleasant effects on some pictures (especially grayscale).
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4.5 Fixedsys
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Fixedsys is a nice sans serif font that used to be the default for Notepad.
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Many people use it as their ASCII viewing font and it definitely isn't bad for
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that. Fixedsys is a bitmap font so some Windows programs might not allow you
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use it.
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4.6 Arial Alternative
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Arial Alternative looks like Courier bred with Arial, resulting in a wide,
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relatively thick sans serif font, not exactly my cup of tea.
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4.7 MS Gothic
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MS Gothic has nothing to do with slitting wrists, it's actually meant for
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displaying Japanese. It is sans serif and looks quite ok, but I'm not sure if
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it's worth getting and installing just for ASCII art, as the file size is a
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whopping four megabytes.
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4.8 Andale Mono (aka Monotype.com)
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Andale Mono is actually a commercial font, but it was apparently bundled with
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some versions of Internet Explorer. This is a fixed-width font that actually
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looks stylish, even though it might not be the best one for viewing ASCII art.
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5 ASCII art software
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5.1 JavE
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Jave is the Photoshop of the ASCII world, but unlike Photoshop, it's free
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software. It's also multiplatform because it runs on Java, so you need to
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download the Java runtimes to get it to work. JavE offers many kinds of
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painting modes, gradients, textures and brushes. Naturally it also gives you
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the ability to copy and paste rectangles, flip and mirror pictures and. JavE
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also contains a a watermark option, a picture to ASCII converter, camelizer, an
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ASCII 3D modeller, FIGlet and many other features. You can even make ASCII
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animations with it.
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