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Creating an ASCII text portrait
From the course: Type Tips
Creating an ASCII text portrait
- [Nigel] Welcome to "Type Tips." I'm Nigel French. Here's a fun project that broadly comes under the category of Word Art, converting an image into a series of ASCII, that's American Standard Code for Information Interchange, characters. Before OpenType, ASCII was the standard encoding for the characters of a font. ASCII art has been around for a long time, and there are several websites that allow you to convert an image into ASCII art. I'll be using text-image.com, that's text hyphen image.com. I'm going to take it one step further and show you how we can use the generated ASCII characters to make a completely scalable portrait composed entirely of text characters in InDesign. This technique works best on portraits, and it helps if it's a well-known image so that the viewer's brain can fill in the missing information. I'm using Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." So on the website, I'm going to choose my file,…
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