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Re:REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor by nineteen999 on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @08:42AM (#18655213)
I have a WIP renderer for the TDF font format for UNIX that I'm working on, which can output the fonts in CP437 or UTF-8 format on the terminal, or with the help of another tool, to a PNG.

Example output:

https://i.imgur.com/bkwSCEU.png

That looks like a 4 at the end, but it's a 9. A lot of the TDF fonts are a bit crazy.

Better image showing the different colored versions that are stored inside some TDF's:

https://i.imgur.com/6cyjZGi.png

Another example rendered to terminal rather than PNG using Unicode:

https://i.imgur.com/L45U347.png

Although for some bizarre reason, gnome screenshot tool completed changed the colors around.

Re:REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor by pan69 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @02:26AM (#18662006)
That's pretty cool!