I like the VGA one too

NM


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Luca Saiu <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2013-07-08 at 12:22, Luca Saiu wrote:
>
> >  |        GNU Hackers Meeting 2013         |
> >  A      22-25 August -- Paris, France      A
> > /^\   http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2013/paris   /^\
> >
> > To be written in a fixed-width "terminal" font, green over black.  A
> > blinking cursor in the end would be the only concession to animation --
> > and already a little distracting.
>
> OK, I did it, on the train back home.  The one in the classic VGA font
> is a little disappointing; I'd made the ASCII-art drawing on Emacs, with
> the Monospace font.  The tower looks much worse with different fonts,
> and Monospace isn't very believable as a text terminal font.  I prefer
> the VGA version -- even if it's not really accurate: to really simulate
> a text terminal we should find some font similar to what was used in the
> DEC VT100, or the like.
>
> http://ageinghacker.net/ghm-scratch/banner/banner-text-vga-green.gif
> http://ageinghacker.net/ghm-scratch/banner/banner-text-monospace.gif
>
> You find the Gimp XCF files on
> http://ageinghacker.net/ghm-scratch/banner/ .
>
> Feel free to make something better, along the same lines or not.  I
> won't take it personally :-).
>
> --
> Luca Saiu
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