ASCII art
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ASCII art is the use of text characters, typically ASCII code points 33-127 (7-bit visible), nearly always in a monospace font to create coarse, abstract, and usually monochromatic art, that members of the IndieWeb community sometimes post on their sites or use as home page decorations.
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IndieWeb Examples
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Naty S — home page uses ASCII art (profile picture of her with a bicycle). The /caw page also uses ASCII art coupled with an in-terminal look. Another example in 2026-W08 weeknote.- https://fnhipster.com/ — home page has an animated ASCII. Stick around long enough, and you might catch a live ASCII broadcast.
- https://aprilscable.neocities.org/ascii-art – has a separate post about dabbling with ASCII art.
Other Examples
- From hacker images,
2024-03-16 ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots
Some ASCII art of our favorite visual cliche for a hacker.
- Collection of embedded ASCII arts from hisacro's text blogs - https://displ.nl/ascii_art.html
- Amiga ASCII text art Thesis - https://web.archive.org/web/20231022091423/https://blog.glyphdrawing.club/amiga-ascii-art/
Tools
Tools for drawing ASCII art
- https://textik.com/
- https://kirilllive.github.io/ASCII_Art_Paint/ascii_paint.html
- https://picoe.ca/products/pablodraw/
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