Ryan Holmberg wrote an article on the Typepicter a couple of days ago. A japanese typewriter from the early twentieth century, specifically for making artistic images - ASCII art of the time. There is something fascinating about hacking the alphabet or other miniscule units and creating something unintended. Whether it be nerdy or abstract. Usawa Masato created a unique typewriter, or Typepicter, that both had semantic and non-semantic units. I've created a font that imitates a few units of the Typepicter. Enough to create ASCII bonzai cherries. Font and SVGs are avaible at GitHub.
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Try it using qwerty
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Asemic writing by Sergio Uzal
