Hackfetch Meets Orpheus!

If you’ve been around Hack Club for more than five minutes, you know Orpheus. The little dinosaur shows up everywhere: stickers,
websites, T-shirts, hackathon merch.

Until today, he wasn’t in hackfetch. That’s been bugging me since v1.0.

The goal was simple: give Orpheus a spot in the logo lineup, the same way flag, bot, and rocket already have one.

hackfetch orpheus

Drawing him was the harder part.

Every logo in hackfetch has to fit inside a fixed width of 33 characters, otherwise the system info column next to it gets pushed off the screen. 33 characters is not a lot of room to draw a recognizable dinosaur, especially one with personality.

I tried him head-on first. It didn’t work. Round dinosaur faces in ASCII end up looking like blobs because you don’t have curves, only corners.

So I redrew him in profile. The result:

• a snout sticking out to one side
• one big eye (◉) that catches the light
• a HACK CLUB body underneath
• two tiny stubby legs at the bottom

Nine lines tall. No wasted rows.

He plays especially well with the gradient color schemes:

hackfetch orpheus -color forest
hackfetch orpheus -color sunset

Forest makes him look like he’s wandering through tall grass. Sunset gives him a “main character in the closing shot” vibe.

The mascot finally has a seat at the terminal.

Long overdue!

Also if any better artists want to have a crack at it, I’m super open to that, and I can credit you in my repo as a collaborator! THNX!