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ASCII Art

ASCII Art is signatures, pictures, smileys, emoticons, and figlets made with the standard keyboard characters. ASCII art needs to be viewed with a fixed width font like FixedSys or Courier New. I prefer FixedSys.


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Keyboard art, typewriter art, text art, typographic art, type-based illustrations are other names for, and related to, ASCII art. See the Text Art subcategory for more.

Welcome to ASCII Art: signatures, pictures, smileys, emoticons, and figlets made with the standard keyboard characters (ASCII). Mainly used in source code, signature files and text based games.

Animation

ASCII art animated using javascripts. They look like movies made with every day text.

ASCII art animated using javascripts.

Artists

Original ASCII art. This category is for the artist's original ASCII work on their own page or one made for them. ASCII Art: pictures, smileys and figlets made with the standard keyboard characters (ASCII). Often used in signature files.

ASCII Artists are people who make their own original ASCII art.

Collections

Collections, galleries of ASCII art displayed. Does not include galleries created the original artist with their own ASCII art.

Emoticons

Emoticons (also called smileys) are used in email, chat and other Net communication. They allow the writer to show humour, sarcasm, etc. This is useful in the typewritten medium of the Internet where communication can be misunderstood. Smileys are faces made from the basic keyboard (ASCII) characters. To 'read' them look at them sideways. :-) Text based only, not web graphics. See Emojis.

Smileys/ emoticons are faces made from the basic keyboard (ASCII) characters. Text based only, not web graphics. See Emojis.

Figlets

Figlets are like ASCII art fonts. Most often used for signatures, banners and headlines.

Fonts made of ASCII art. Used for signatures, banners and headlines usually.

News and Media

ASCII art related publications and articles. Also ASCII art chats and forums.

Signature Art

ASCII art which is used for signatures in email and other areas of the Net. A signature file should not be over 5 lines in length and in width it should be 72 characters or less. I find the best test is to try it in MS Notepad, it won't warp if it fits in Notepad.

ASCII art which is used for signatures in email and other areas of the Net.

Signature Files

How to... make signature files and use them in your email and etc. Signature files using HTML code and/ or ASCII.

Making and using signature files. These are signature files using HTML code and/ or ASCII.

Software

Software used to create ASCII Art. No other kind of software should be listed here. For any other software have a look in the Computers/Software.

Software used to create ASCII Art.

Text Art

This category is for art thats not quite ASCII art as we know it in the ASCII newsgroup and on the email lists, etc. This is sometimes the art used on AOL chatrooms where the font is Ariel 10pts, instead of a fixed width font. Also, as with the colourized ASCII art the standard keyboard characters are not the only characters used. To save confusion I have put all the art called: ANSI art, HTML art, text art and macro art in a category by themselves.

Not quite standard ASCII art: ANSI art, HTML art, text art and macro art.