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ascii_art.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ ASCII art is the [art](art.md) of (mostly manually) creating graphics and images
 
 This kind of art used to be a great part of the [culture](culture.md) of earliest [Internet](internet.md) and near-Internet (e.g. [BBS](bbs.md)) communities for a number of reasons imposed largely by the limitations of old computers -- it could be created easily with a text editor and saved in pure text format, it didn't take much space to store or send over a network and it could be displayed on text-only displays and [terminals](terminal.md). The idea itself even predates computers, people were already making this kind of images with type writers, e.g. some poets were formatting their poems with typewriters to picture-shapes. Despite the technical limitations of displays having been overpassed, ASCII art survives even to present day and lives on in the [hacker culture](hacking.md), among [programmers](programming.md), in [Unix](unix.md) and "retro" game communities as well as on the [Smol Internet](smol_internet.md), among people who just want to [keep it simple](kiss.md) and so on. ASCII diagram may very well be embedded in a comment on a text-only forum or in source code to explain some spatial concept. ASCII art may even be superior for making certain types of drawings from purely user perspective exactly by being simplified, it can be performed merely with keyboard with little distraction (not caring about colors, not having to focus on right angles, to care about line thicknesses, switching tools, deleting imprecise strokes, ...), similarly to how for example it may be easier to create a rough model of a house in [Minetest](minetest.md) than to model it in [Blender](blender.md). { I found that for making quick diagrams I prefer ASCII art to graphic tools. ~drummyfish } We, [LRS](lrs.md), highly advocate use of ASCII art whenever it's [good enough](good_enough.md).
 
+Small trouble with ASCII art lies in the fact that the rendering may be largely affected by where and how it's viewed, mainly by the [font](font.md) used, settings such as line spacing and [color](color.md) of text and background. This can alter aspect ratio, brightness values of individual characters, their visual interaction etc. Therefore if it plays a role, it's a good idea to leave a note about how to view the piece.
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 Here is a simple 16-shade ASCII [palette](palette.md) (but watch out, whether it works will depend on your font): `#OVaxsflc/!;,.- `. Another one can be e.g.: `WM0KXkxocl;:,'. `.
 
 Next we'll present a handy table of approximate brightness values for each printable ASCII character, with 0 being black and 1000 white (of course the values always depend on the specific [font](font.md) you use):