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
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Yeah, humans need to step up their game. (via writing-system)

Yeah, humans need to step up their game. (via writing-system)

#unicode      #code      #typography      #2010s      #font     

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Very impressive stop motion text movie: TXT ISLAND.

TXT ISLAND is a typographic tale of epic misadventure. The film was shot as stop-motion animation of plastic sign board letters by animation director Chris Gavin and completed in May 2009 after a production period of around 9 months.

Thanks to Ilkke for the headzüp.

#animation      #stopmotion      #typography      #2000s     

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Alchemical Symbols from Le vray et methodiqve covrs de la physiqve resolvtive : vvlgairement dite chymie …  by Annibal Barlet (Paris, 1657).

Alchemical Symbols from Le vray et methodiqve covrs de la physiqve resolvtive : vvlgairement dite chymie …  by Annibal Barlet (Paris, 1657).

#1600s      #ancient      #Typography     

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Tree of Dissipation, Intemperance, via.

Tree of Dissipation, Intemperance, via.

#letterpress      #Typography     

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Stewart Home: Plagiarism: Art as Commodity and Strategies for its Negation (1987), via.

Stewart Home: Plagiarism: Art as Commodity and Strategies for its Negation (1987), via.

#1980s      #typography      #80s      #design      #book     

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Kufi works by Abdulaziz Şahin, Turkey. All these designs contain the word Muhammed or Allah, or both. More here.

#2010s      #typography      #calligraphy      #kufic      #square kufic     

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Typographische Monatsblätter (TM), cover design by André Gürtler (1966).

#design      #Typography      #60s     

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writing-system: Rune Ancient calendar from Sāmsala Source

writing-system:

Rune Ancient calendar from Sāmsala Source

#ancient      #Typography     
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Notgeld from the series designed in 1921 by Czech designer Wenzel Hablik, town of Itzehoe, via.

Notgeld from the series designed in 1921 by Czech designer Wenzel Hablik, town of Itzehoe, via.

#20s      #TextArt      #Typography     

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pixelsinthewild: Police station in Rotterdam, bicolor pixel tile lettering. Photo by Aliz Borsa

pixelsinthewild:

Police station in Rotterdam, bicolor pixel tile lettering. Photo by Aliz Borsa

#tiles      #typography      #Architecture     

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Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, untitled, via.

Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, untitled, via.

#print      #typography     

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Meg Hitchcock

Meg Hitchcock

#textart      #poetry      #typography     

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ASCII font by Carine Bigot

#ascii      #typography      #font      #animation     

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Morse code, Punched card recording medium, Binary numeral system, Baudot code and dot matrix printer for the TM cover design by Heinrich Fleischhacker (1975).

#Typography      #design      #70s      #morse      #binary      #punched-card      #baudot-code      #print      #textmode     

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TM cover design by Theophil Stirnemann (1969).

#design      #Typography      #60s