Show HN: Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art

Category: other

Tags: typography, archive, design-history

Score: 3.3/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 3, Documentation: 3, Utility: 3)

An archive of 2,497 historical examples of pictorial typography, a precursor to ASCII art, with faceted filtering by location, year, person, and other metadata. Its niche focus on typographic history and curated collection is interesting for design historians and typography enthusiasts.

Target audience: design historians, typography enthusiasts, digital archivists

Repository: https://garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com/

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