Finally, continuing from part 2, last but certainly not least, we need to talk about color. Color accuracy in ANSI is something that was occasionally discussed around the scene even in the DOS days, but those issues mostly centered around the particulars of an individual’s monitor’s brightness and contrast settings (or perhaps how rich of… Read More: Improving CMD Visuals (Part 3) »
Now let’s go into a bit more detail about proportion and aspect ratio. An aspect ratio is, at least when we’re talking about displays, the ratio of the width to the height of an image. In Part 1 of this series I talked about how the default CMD.EXE font was totally the wrong size. The… Read More: Improving CMD Visuals (Part 2) »
During a recent chat, a prominent ANSI artist mentioned his concerns about the way his ANSI was being displayed in a screenshot I sent him. This lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole of thinking of how people use the CMD.EXE console, first introduced in Windows NT and still with us today, in… Read More: Improving CMD Visuals (Part 1) »