33 points | by panic 4 days ago
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Recent and related:
Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)
Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!
Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.
Recent and related:
Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)
Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!
Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.