The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowersgarden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com 35 pointspanic2 months ago3 commentsSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−dang2moRecent and related:Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)−california-og1moAuthor here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!−gwern1moVery nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.
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Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48550569 - June 2026 (28 comments)
Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!
Very nice. May I make a suggestion? Add a metadata field for the use of red (ie. rubrication https://gwern.net/red ), which is a core technique of this kind of printing, I think, but not typically noted.