ASCII Art

What is ASCII Art?

ASCII art is a type of digital art created using text characters. The term comes from ASCII, the name of an old text encoding format. Most ASCII art is monochrome, using plain text as medium, but it's also possible to created colored ASCII art with specialized applications like REXPaint.

• Some ASCII Art is Supposed to be White Text on a Black Background

Quotes

           ___    _   _    ____   _      _   ______   _____     ____
       O ,/ _ \  | \ | |  / ___! | |    | | |  ____! |  __ \   / ___!
      /\/| !_! | |  \| | | (___  | | /\ | | | !__    | !__) | | (___
     /   |  _  | | . ` |  \___ \ \ \/  \/ / |  __!   |  _  /   \___ \ O  ,
    /\   | | | | | |\  |  ____) | \  /\  /  | !____  | | \ \   ____) ||\/
   /_/_  !_! !_! !_! \_! !_____/   \/  \/   !______! !_!  \_\ !_____/ |/\_



   1.  What is ASCII art?

   An image that can be sent over the Net,         A B C D E F G H I
received and immediately viewed on any             J K L M N O P Q R
standard terminal type or communications            S T U V W X Y Z
software, and can be printed on any printer.       a b c d e f g h i
This requires the image be made by using           j k l m n o p q r
only letters, numbers, punctuation marks            s t u v w x y z
and symbols such as those at the right.
                                                  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
   These characters are part of the ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information           \ | - _ + % @ < ; !
Interchange) set.  This part of the ASCII         = # . , : > ( ] / $
set, called the 'printable' set, is used          ^ ' ` " ~ ) [ { } ?
for text files, which is what is sent
over the Net.                                  Standard ASCII characters.

FAQ - ASCII Art Questions & Answers, "Date: 16 May 1994 14:01:58 -0500" [http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/b12/gallery/ascii/ascii.faq] (accessed 2024-10-05)

Links

• ASCII Art Archive [www.asciiart.eu].
  Contains monochrome ASCII art.
• Playscii's blog [playscii.tumblr.com].
  Contains colored ASCII art.
• Artist: Roy/SAC (Carsten Cumbrowski) [roysac.com].
  Contains tutorials in case you want to learn how to create ASCII art.

Observations

I tried to check all FTP and WWW links in that FAQ without success. All rotten. There were Gopher links as well, but I don't know how to use them.