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Lovely idea, seems very tastefully done. I find myself occasionally using artist-mode in emacs, and I have endless nostalgia for extended ASCII box-drawing, having made crappy RPGs for a good 25 years.

I actually feel like this could have a genuinely useful place on the modern internet. If you look at the success of animated gifs, it's a lo-fi, lightweight solution to video. I think this could be the same for quick diagrams, on blogs or in tweets.

Is there colour support? Outputting HTML and CSS snippets with `white-space: pre` would be great.

Anyway, will definitely check it out when it's shipped!




Thanks :)

There's currently no colour support, as my focus has been to make a solid v1. I've looked into ANSI escape sequences to support colour and it should be quite easy to add.

Part of the problem when I work on Monodraw is that there are so many cool things I stumble upon related to text art and I want to do them all but have to restrain myself, as there's only so much I can do.

We do have something related to HTML / CSS output in the pipeline which I'll be talking about more over the next few weeks.




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