Have you been naughty or nice? What would Santa say?
There are lots of Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas pictures done in ASCII art. Christmas time seems to have the biggest collection of such art. I think it’s because this artistic method is so easy to send in an email. Or, it used to be. Now HTML email has messed things up and you need to send the ASCII art in an image file instead of just the plain text copied into an email.… Read the rest
Some people get peeved because I don’t offer my art in a plain text file. I don’t like having my ASCII ripped off, as it so often and easily is. So, for the past few years, I only post an image file (a .png screen capture from NotePad usually). It still gets ripped off because people like to assume any ASCII art is free, like free software in price and availability.… Read the rest
I found a blog posting ASCII art in small text files, cleanly. Quite a nice achievement. I took a look at the code and copied it, but it did not work the same way for me. So, I am looking into it. There may be more to the code than shows on the blog post HTML code.… Read the rest
I Make my own ASCII Art. So Can You.
Start by looking down at your keyboard. The typical keyboard has every character (letter and punctuation mark) that you need to make your own ASCII art. Anything not already on that keyboard is not used for ASCII art. If you use extra characters you’re making ANSI art.… Read the rest
Best viewed in a fixed width font. My favourite are FixedSys or Consolas.
The ASCII art gallery files open as plain text (.txt files). If you can’t see them (if they look messed up) change the font you are viewing them with.
Please respect the artist. Leave the artist credit, initials (mine are ldb), on each of the images.… Read the rest
d8P8. d88b. D8B, 88 88 d8P8. d8P. 8888 88 88 e8 8e 8P
d8P 8 8_ .. d8P d8 88 88 8 8 W 88 88 D88 88 88 88b
d8P888 8 Yb. D8P888 88 88 88 e 8P 8P88 88P 88 88 Y88
d8P 8 '88P 'Y88P d8P 88 88 8 8 8 88 '8.,… Read the rest