Text Art

Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes. (March 31, 2001)

FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion

Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon". (March 31, 2001)

Smiley's People

Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic. (September 13, 1993)

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The Adventures of Nerd Boy

The Nerd Boy ASCII comics, fan art and merchandise.

Fixed Characters

Text art comic, created and coded in a text editor. By Alden.

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Artho Software

ASCII art fonts for figlet.

ASCII Generator

Generate an ASCII graphic from a word or text. Over 130 figlet fonts.

FIGlet

FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary text.

Figlet Java

A Java powered Figlet, the multi-font banner builder.

Hixie Figlet Server

ASCII art text generator.

Text ASCII Art Generator

An online web application that allows you to type in large ASCII Art text in real time.

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Animasci

A catalogue of original animated ASCII art. The site features an animation editor, collaboration tools and thematic portals.

Clint's ASCII Animation Gallery

Animated ASCII art. Taking suggestions for more animations.

Gallery of ASCII Animations by llizard

Javascript ASCII-animation.

Star Wars Asciimation

Star Wars in an ASCII animation movie.

Veronica: Animations

ASCII animations by Veronica and others.

Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art/Software/Games/

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Pyramid Builder

Grow a Pyramid building civilization. Short game in ASCII art.

SanctuaryRPG

ASCII art RPG available to play on Steam.

Shoot 'em ASCII Art Game

Game that uses ASCII graphics. Top scores can be synchronized with other users.

Stone Story RPG

RPG game created in ASCII art images.

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AA-project

History of AA-project and a gallery.

Ajax ANSI Art Player

JavaScript based ANSI viewer (no server language required).

Alan's IOCCC Entry

Spin 3D shapes into ASCII art.

Ansilove

Ansilove is a set of tools to convert ANSI and others text file formats into PNG images, supporting ANSI, PCBoard, Binary, ADF, IDF, TUNDRA, TND, and XBiN.

Artist Mode for Emacs

Artist is an Emacs lisp package that allows you to draw lines, rectangles, squares, poly-lines, ellipses and circles by using your mouse and/ or keyboard.

Ascgen dotNET

Open-source image to text converter, with support for variable width fonts.

ASCII Art Ensemble

Supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ASCII media converter.

ASCII Art Generator

Provides online tool for ASCII art from image and text. Includes animation.

ASCII Art Studio

ASCII Art editor. Supports text editing mode and graphic editing mode. View ANSI art. Convert between picture and ASCII Art, multiple undo/ redo, print.

ASCII Editor Beta

Software to make and colour ASCII art. ASCII Editor 4.1 Beta, BMP2ASCII converter, ANSI viewer.

ASCII GCTB

Suited to creating any ASCII text file (NFO, DIZ, or TXT). The program uses multiple inputs, edit boxes, templates, project files, and a coding syntax to create any design.

ASCII Jam

A free online ASCII graphics editor with private and groupware modes. Create color and traditional ASCII pictures and export to PDF and HTML formats. Java enabled browser required.

ASCII Mailer

Sends the recipient an ASCII art picture with a personalized message. The idea came from a REXX program called Oi.

ASCII Pumper by Lampiasis

Offers an open source program which requires the .NET Framework 2.0 to colorize ASCII art with mIRC color codes.

Asciiart.club

Free, online ASCII art generator. Features include drag-and-drop image loading, various character selections, color modes, and output formats including html, bbcode, and an easy-to-share image.

Asciifier

Convert an image, or all the images within a web page, into a pixel-perfect copy made only of text.

Asciimator

A web application which allows everybody to create ASCII animations, publish them and insert into their own web pages.

BG_ASCII

An interactive ASCII graphic tool. Creates pictures and artistic text made of ASCII characters. Programmed by Boris A. Glazer.

C64 ASCII Art Editor

An editor using PETSCII character set; working on layers to create animations.

Characterizer

Freeware "One form" application for converting images to ASCII text (ASCII art).

Divxmania Image Artworks

An online script that convert any given image in HTML/ ASCII text.

EDASCII

EDASCII is an ASCII art editor for Linux. It allows a fast and easy manipulation of ASCII drawings.

Email Effects

A powerful GUI ASCII art editor for Windows or Macintosh, including picture and table conversion and Figlet support.

FABS - Flexible ASCII Banner Software

FABS is a program for making banners, except it uses ASCII characters for the fonts. Sort of like Figlet program turned sideways.

GIF2TXT

Convert gifs into ASCII pictures. Script to use online, not a download.

Image2Ascii Competition 2001

From a discussion in alt.ascii-art. The intention is to compare different image2ascii converters and also to see how ASCII artists do that kind of conversion by hand.

IMG2ASCII

A PHP program, that generates ASCII images from JPG, GIF or PNG images. There are several options to alter the generated output, such as color, inversed color, font sizes, background color, line height or letter spacing.

iNFekt for Windows

Free, open source application for viewing and presenting NFO files. Includes documentation, screenshots and download links.

Jave

Free java ASCII versatile editor. Rather than for editing texts, it is intended for drawing simple diagrams by using ASCII characters.

Magic ASCII Studio

An ASCII art generation platform. You can make ASCII art words, photos and animations. Take an image and process it to an HTML, RTF or BMP file.

MasterVB: ASCII Art Generator

Generate ASCII art from image and text.

NFO Reader

A free viewer for NFO files. Support for ANSI and ASCII art.

NFO Viewer

A simple, open source viewer for NFO files, which are ASCII art in the CP437 codepage, mainly for Unix like operating systems.

Pic2ascii

Designed to transform bitmap images to ASCII, text art.

Picoe Software: Pablo Draw

An open source ANSI and ASCII text art editor/ viewer. Works with Linux, Mac OS or Windows.

Pixelhaufen: ASCII Art

ASCII Art plugin for Photoshop or Gimp.

QQPR: ASCII Animator

Free software to convert GIF image to animated ASCII art.

Text Art.io

ASCII tools like figlet generator, image2ascii, cowsay in one place. This site also hosts an ASCII art collection. An ASCII art API as a REST service is also offered.

Text Crayon

Free online ASCII art tool. This feature works like tracing paper.

Tribute to Text Mode Games

Virtual museum for games using only 16 colors and the 255 symbols in the IBM-extended ASCII character set. Download, play, and admire these gems from a simpler time in computing.

ULTed

A utility program for drawing and colorizing ASCII art.

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Anatol Knotek

Artist and visual poet.

Big Bang Faerie

Virtual animated poetry by Big Bang Art Inner Movement. Texts in French and English. Includes manifesto.

The Body Politic

By Jennifer Ley. Part of DAC '99, My Millennium, and Cauldron and Net.

A Collective Effort of Australian Visual Poets

Visual poetry from thalia, Jas H,. Duke, Ruth Cowen, and other poets associated with Collective Effort Press.

The Gates of Paradise

Hundreds of shape poems to the unbound human self by David Daniels and friends. Including selections from his biographical visual epic, Years.

Joglars Crossmedia Beliefware

Works by Miekal And.

Kaldron On-Line

Official site for the visual poetry magazine. Archives, articles and presentations of individual poets.

Lettriste Pages

Main site on the web for this French visual poetry movement, censored out of standard Concrete anthologies. Among other distinctions, Lettrisme was the art form of the 1968 French Students' Movement that came close to bringing about a revolution. Work by founder Isidore Isou, and members from succeding generations.

Mathematical Poetry

An artistic expression created by performing mathematical operations on words or images as if they were numbers.

Poetic Solutions : Poemas interreales

An intersemiotic site: original graphics, translations, poetry, concrete poetry and art, multilingual domain names. Flash design is used in various pages. The Web Design Poet Award resides at Poetic Solutions. In English and Spanish.

Poetry Et cetera

Deborah Young's visual poetry.

Strings

Dan Waber's playful series of Flash pieces about relationships.

Tom Phillips A Humument

Centering on A HUMUMENT, this site includes information about Phillips' projects and samples on new pages of his magnum opus.

Workshop of the Scripturality

The site presents the artwork of Joëlle Dautricourt on writing, Hebrew and Latin letters. In English and French.

Workshop with Hungarian Visual Poets

Poetry by Maria Hegedus, Tibor Papp, Gabor Toth and others, most publishing in Hungarian Workshop magazine, which helped keep a sense of community going, even when some of these poets lived in exile.

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