braillefont(1)

📦 version 1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to braillefont — she's a lil command from the General Commands Manual and her whole thing is printing text using unicode braille characters 🦋✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

braillefont

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no flags, no options, no drama 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so braillefont is lowkey a shapeshifter, she can go interactively or non-interactively — like if you're feeling non-interactive you can literally just do:

echo text | braillefont

and she'll take whatever text you hand her and convert it into a bitmapped version using the Braille range of Unicode 🫶 it's giving glow-up but for words, fr fr.

here's the part that's actually iconic: every individual character gets its own lil grid of 6x8 (5x7 usable) "pixels" 👑 and those pixels get rendered out as 3x2 blocks of Unicode characters. so like, each letter you type becomes a whole lil mosaic of braille dots. no cap, it's art 🎨✨

💀 CAVEATS 💀

okay so here's the tea and it's a lil bit of a bummer 😭 — for any given text, only printable ASCII and a limited number of other characters are supported. so don't come at her with your wildest emoji keyboard and expect magic, she said "printable ASCII and some others, that's it, periodt" 💀

not me trying to warn you before you pipe in a whole essay of exotic unicode and get sad 🙈

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

braillefont was written by Adam Borowski <kilobyte AT angband.pl> 💜 give him his flowers, he ate and left no crumbs 👑

and that's a wrap bestie 🌈 this lil cutie lives in the General Commands Manual as braillefont(1) — no version or date drama on this page, just pure section-1 energy. go make some braille art, mwah 💋💖

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