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Half-Block

Two colours in every cell: the BBS-era ANSI art trick that doubles the vertical resolution of text.

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Twice the rows

Each character cell shows the upper-half block, and the top and bottom halves of the cell take their own colours. The grid is twice as fine vertically as an ordinary character picture, which is why it reads so much sharper.

Palette

Source takes each half-cell's colour from the picture. ANSI 16 snaps those colours to the 16 colours of a terminal, the palette that old bulletin-board art was drawn with.

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Generated from the registry the app publishes, so this list is whatever the current build actually ships — not a copy of it.

Palette
SourceANSI 16
  • Block MosaicThe image drawn in Unicode block characters: square cells, curated ramps, ink and paper colour.
  • BrailleThe image as a field of raised braille dots, each cell a small lattice of six or eight.
  • ASCIIImage to text art: per-cell luminance mapped through nineteen character ramps via a font atlas, with mono, source-colour, duotone and ANSI-16 colour — or laid out as a page of code instead of a grid.

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