A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...
Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s

Gabbeh carpets made by Behruz Studio. This is an old persian carpet style that is similar to textmode in many ways. It has not-so-precise patterns and a small number of knots per square centimeter. They can be produced rather quickly and cheap. In fact, the word Gabbeh means raw, natural and uncut.

It uses few colours, which are usually quite bright. Shapes are usually rectangular. There can be large fields of the same colour, but they variegated (ie, the colour varies throughout the carpet).

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