SatoruToruDo someone recognize character from this ASCII art?
talTineye doesn’t get anything, but PicDetective finds a bunch of hits, a number on Pinterest.
It looks like the image itself doesn’t have that magnifying glass with a star in the bottom right, but that Pinterest puts that magnifying glass on images, so if you got that image elsewhere, at some point, it was probably a screenshot of someone viewing one of the images on Pinterest.
If you yourself took the screenshot on Pinterest, that probably doesn’t help much.
The image itself isn’t ASCII art — it uses non-ASCII characters. Not only that, but the characters aren’t even close to being identical, so it’s not just done using a handwriting-style font — it looks like someone had to have freehand-drawn it (unless they used some exotic, procedurally-generated typeface system, which I would bet against).
Also, given the significant brightness variation across characters — I don’t think that that’s a compression or scaling artifact — I’m guessing that someone used some kind of pen with continuous ink flow. Not a ballpoint or rollerball — those dispense ink at a fixed rate as the point moves across the paper, but a fountain pen, marker, or brush pen.
I’ve never used one, so I don’t know how much brightness variation one can expect, but I’m wondering if it might have been done with a brush pen. The stroke width is near constant regardless of stroke angle, so I don’t think that it’s a fountain pen, but then there are some finer characters, like the commas and backticks, and it looks like brush pens are capable of doing that.
It sounds like Japanese users use brush pens to do Japanese characters.
I think that at least some of those characters are katakana, the “alphabetic” form of Japanese writing:
Which suggests that the artist who crafted the text was also Japanese. They might also have been the one to do the brushwork/penwork, if it was a brush pen (or maybe two Japanese people, one designing the original text, the other doing the brushwork).
I also don’t think that the artist was using a tool to help keep their characters in line, since some of the columns are decidedly mis-aligned.
It’s also using Japanese punctuation characters.
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It might be that there is no text-based form online, if the same person designed the thing and then did the brush work. Your best bet, if you want a text-based form of the image, as you say in your post, might be to re-create it manually in a text editor, using a monospaced font.
I don’t know if you yourself are Japanese — you have a name that sounds Japanese to me — but if you can recognize the characters yourself, you might not have a hard time inputting them yourself. I don’t know what that “h-with-a-squiggle” character at the base of the girl’s hairline is, next to her cheek, though. Not a Latin character, and I don’t think that it’s katakana, either.
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Ah, okay, you do know Japanese, so you might already know a bunch of what I wrote, be ahead of me there.
EDIT: Ah, the “h with a squiggle” is hiragana.