What does the nvdash symbol mean or words?

[AddictArts]

I looked but could not find any description, thanks for the help.

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[siduck]

@AddictArts its in arabic kufic script which means knowledge comes before speech and action

[ahmedelgabri]

@siduck I'm curious to know how it was created/generated?

[siduck]

@ahmedelgabri my friend @xyl1t did it ❤️

[xyl1t]

As salamu aleikum, thanks for the mention!

My first step was to make the initial design in paint where I could edit pixels by hand (because doing it in text right away is very tedious). The design was iterated over multiple times until the design was satisfactory.
After that step I transferred the image to text using Neovim and utilising just these characters:

• Half block: ▄
• Full block: █

That's it! I don't have any special software for this process, but I imagine one could write a simple script to convert the pixels of an image to text.

[ahmedelgabri]

Wa Alaykom AlSalam @xyl1t, Mashallah great stuff! Thanks for the information, very useful.