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emojicombos.com

This site is so cool!

             ／＞　 フ
            | 　_　_| 
          ／` ミ＿xノ 
         /　　　　 |
        /　 ヽ　　 ﾉ
        │　　|　|　|
   ／￣|　　 |　|　|
   (￣  ヽ＿_ヽ_)__)
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But how do people make these? I searched online and the best I could find were small Japanese communities still using MS Gothic (which is metrically incompatible with Arial/more-used fonts) and halfhearted JPG-to-ASCII-bitmap converters.

Further, how do people manage these? I’d imagine an emoji search, but these millionfold emoticons don’t have names; and the other alternatives are “I’ve got a meme for that scrolls down infinite camera roll” or searching them up every time.

⠀/\_/\
(˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶) thanks lol
/ >🌷<~⁠♡

  • inconel@lemmy.ca
    6·
    4 days ago

    Japanese here. There are specific editors often categorized as “アスキーアートエディタ” (Ascii Art Editor). They often come with libraries of existing AA to modify, and can display image with low opacity to “trace” image.

    Large part of jp ascii art made/appeared in 90s to early 00s at underground forums like 2ch. Those editor were tailored for their speifics such as font family (MS-P Gothic) and size. The display/font system is different nowadays, but unlike “AA artist” in those times who is 100% comitted to make vertical line aligning pixel perfect most of people find those AA displays ok.

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
    6·
    5 days ago

    I don’t think, there’s a special trick to making them. You can look at existing kaomoji lists and pick out individual symbols to create the shape that you want.

    Or you can combine kamojis. For example, maybe you want a cat handing over a flower, but you want it to look sad, like an apology.

    Then you find a sad cat kaomoji:

    /ᐠ • ˕ •マ

    And combine it with the kaomoji you posted:

    ⠀/\__/\
 (• ˕ •)    
/ >🌷< \

    Well, could be better, but just as an example. Combining different faces and arm shapes and such is relatively easy.

    As for managing them, I usually see tags assigned to them. On the webpage that you posted, it’s the little text boxes below the kaomoji.
    But in its simplest form, you could have a text document and just write a few words above each kaomoji, like e.g. “sad cat flower”. Then if you search the text document with Ctrl+F for “cat”, this will be one of the results.

  • Tyoda@lemm.ee
    5·
    5 days ago

    Basically off topic but… At one point I tried generating some mouse ASCII art with Ch*tG*T and

    This was by far its best output 
      ,     ,
  (\,;,/) 
   (o o)
==\_~_/_==
 /   \    
 \   /    
  `"`"`

    and I really liked it

    so I spruced it up a little. 
      ,     ,
  (\,-,/)
   (o o)
 ===\_/===
   / o
  / mm\
(_\   /
   `"`"

    And now I just want to know where it stole the original from, so I could give credit when I use it…