Re: Unable to view ascii art properly

In alt.ascii-art, Rutuparn Pawar  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am a new member of this group. I was looking at the conversations and
> realized that the ASCII art is not displaying correctly. Do I need to
> set a specific font in my web browser?

Virtually all ASCII art is designed for a fixed width font with an
aspect ratio of about 2:1 (height to width). Usually it's designed
for a san serif font, but sometimes with a serifed font in mind.

Pick something that is fixed width to get in the ballpark every time.
I don't know what fixed width san serif fonts are widely installed,
I read news and view ASCII art in xterms, using a Linux terminal
font. Some sort of Courier is going to be widely installed, that's
a fixed width serifed font. The serifs add some weight to the look
of the characters, so things will often seem a little darker than
they should be.

Elijah
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programmer's fonts are often a good choice