The original image had an off white fireplace and a window in the background. It’s what I eventually went with for the Astounding Scripts cover.īut this amber ASCII art does highlight another feature of the ASCII art script in 42 Astoundingly Useful Scripts and Automations for the Macintosh: the ability to wash out an image, to brighten it, so as to highlight the areas with the most contrast. We still have that today: one of the most popular Terminal color schemes is green on black. The excuse was that it was easier on the eyes, but I think the real reason is that amber and green made their screens look more like people thought a computer ought to look. And many of those that were just white on black, you could buy screen overlays to make them be amber (or green). The amber I used is the color of many of the screens from the era.
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