alt.hn

7/11/2026 at 3:24:03 AM

The Origins of Heikki's Garden of Flowers

https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/?essay

by panic

7/13/2026 at 2:35:58 AM

Recent 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)

by dang

7/13/2026 at 9:12:26 PM

Author here, thanks for sharing the essay & archive!

by california-og

7/14/2026 at 4:36:52 AM

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.

by gwern