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Tom (Terminal On-screen display Mono) is a tool that allows to display the VCR OSD mono-like font on your terminal.

You can install the program via the GitHub relases, or via:

shards install

Usage: tom [options] TEXT
 -s NAME, --style=NAME Block characters to draw with: half, octant, braille (default: half)
 -v LETTER:N,..., --variant=LETTER:N,...
 Use glyph variant N for a given letter, e.g. S:2 (repeatable)
 -h, --help Show this help

tom HELLO

result hello

Three block styles are available via -s, all built from the same glyph data so letter spacing stays the same width on screen whatever style you pick:

tom -s octant HELLO

result hello octant

result hello braille

The display of Braille characters may vary depending on your device. Some of them may not display correctly.

crystal spec
shards build tom

Glyphs live one ASCII code per directory, as half-block art: src/data/<code>/<variant>.txt (e.g. src/data/65/1.txt for A, variant 1). Each file is a 10x7 grid drawn with ▀, ▄, █ and spaces — octant and braille output are derived from this at render time.

1. Fork it (https://github.com/tamdaz/tom.cr/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

• Zohir Tamda - creator and maintainer