Easily make detailed terminal art with unicode characters in this simple viewer
Would you believe that you can display almost anything in the terminal with enough practice and patience?
The hardest part is finding the perfect text characters to make these shapes. Many of the best ones will display properly in the terminal but not on the browser!
This simple github repository tries to solve that problem with a shell script to clearly display all the useful unicode characters for your ASCII-art needs.
Just download the repo and run the script.
git clone https://github.com/Botspot/unicode-art
./unicode-art/viewer.sh
This displays all of the useful characters, categorized by shape and type. All characters have been spaced apart for clarity and easy copy-and-paste.
Ctrl Shift +
.nano
or vim
.viewer.sh
. With this you can set the foreground color (fg
), the background color for the whole terminal (bg
), and the background color for each displayed character (bk
).braille-viewer.sh
script useful.Help! the characters are not appearing in the terminal!
file /usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so | sed -n 's/.*libicudata.so.//p'
If it is 66 or greater, then everything should render correctly.Can I make these special characters appear correctly in my web browser my favorite text editor?