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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by swiley on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:40PM (#17682962)
If you use mlterm (and supposedly xterm with the right compile flags) you can have inline pixelmaps via DEC -regis- sixel escapes.
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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by digi_owl on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:48PM (#17683022)
Actually i think REGIS is for vector graphics, SIXEL (six pixels pr character) is the pixel graphics.

I seem to recall that at least one terminal browser can pull some tricks to insert images into the window in X as well.

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by swiley on Friday August 03, 2018 @03:57PM (#17683098)
Oops, you're right.

The browser you're thinking of is w3m.

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Re:Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Inte... by stevefolta on Friday August 03, 2018 @04:44PM (#17683464)
mlterm also works great with non-monospaced fonts (but doesn't, to my knowledge, have a way to switch between fonts within terminal output, which seems to be what the OP wants).
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