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i have been playing w monospace art a bit again. difficult to find good software for it, tbh, I have been using monodraw but it's aimed at making diagrams, and doesn't expose the full range of fixed-width chars in a font in the palette system

I used a web-based editor that had an editable palette, but the way it displayed the characters was different to how it displayed as a text file (eg, combining characters display separately in the editor, but eat the prev char in a txt file). It took a bit of symbol replacement to filter out some chars to bring it back into monodraw for more controlled export.

I like this medium a lot, finding ways to represent lines cand curves with the limitations of a font, and I especially enjoy the whimsy of little one-off chars for certain details, eg the f where the hair joins the hat, the @ symbol nips, and the & in the ear. I think spending some time choosing a particular monospace font, and pouring over its chars and building a palette of the common ones i use would help.