Knowra ASCII art ASCII art ASCII art is visual imagery made by arranging characters from the ASCII character set in text. Its shapes rely on character placement, spacing, and the visual weight of glyphs.
Monospaced font : A typeface in which every character occupies the same horizontal width. Equal character widths keep columns aligned, preserving the intended shapes.
ASCII : A character encoding standard defining 128 codes for English letters, digits, punctuation, and control characters. Its restricted repertoire sets the original materials for ASCII art.
ANSI art : Text-based imagery using character graphics and color sequences supported by ANSI terminal controls. It adds color and screen effects to the text-art tradition.
ANSI escape code : A control sequence that changes terminal behavior, including text color, cursor position, and screen contents. ANSI art uses these controls, while plain ASCII art relies on printable characters alone.
Text mode : A display mode that represents content as characters arranged in rows and columns. Grid-based text displays make character placement directly control image structure.
Typewriter art : Images made by positioning typewriter characters and symbols on a page. It established character-by-character picture making before computer displays.
FIGlet : A program that renders words as large text banners made from smaller characters. FIGlet automates a popular form of ASCII-art lettering.
Unicode : A character encoding standard that assigns code points to characters across many writing systems and symbol sets. Unicode offers vastly more drawing symbols than ASCII's original character repertoire.
Line drawing characters : Unicode characters designed to form connected horizontal, vertical, and corner lines. These later characters extend text-based drawing beyond ASCII's available marks.
Computer terminal : An interface for entering commands and displaying text from a computer. Text terminals provided a natural setting for images made entirely from characters.
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