Re: [Ghm-discuss] A banner on www.gnu.org?

[Sylvain]

Hey,

For the non-ASCII Eiffel tower I was thinking of something like this :)
http://www.beuc.net/tmp/ghm/banner-gradient.png
http://www.beuc.net/tmp/ghm/banner-gradient.xcf

(text coloring to fix)

Maybe ditch the 'http://' and possibly 'www.' parts too.

- Sylvain

On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 08:19:03PM +0200, Nicolas Martin wrote:
> I like the VGA one too
> 
> NM
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Luca Saiu <address@hidden> 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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