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
キター by よぴ (2011)

キター by よぴ (2011)

喪黒福造 (笑うセールスマン by illiorzilli (2012)

喪黒福造 (笑うセールスマン by illiorzilli (2012)

Made by Clint J (1997)

Visual textmode identity for Pickles PR by Part of a Bigger Plan. Check out the smoo00th transitions on their website.

Kind of similar to Siggi Eggertsson

ASCII-performance by A. Bill Miller with plenty of noise and feedback. Transfer Gallery, April 2013. via

The smallest animation ever! Frame by frame animation with atoms, made by IBM. They say that each atom is like a pixel, but hm. Atoms are not the smallest unit we know of. But pixels are, in computer graphics.

So - these atoms are better described as text graphics!

Watch the videoPics from here. Thanks to Peter Swimm and LittlePiltrafilla for sharing.

mechanical head asciimation by brutto, 2005.

mechanical head asciimation by brutto, 2005.

Telemania 8 asciimation by brutto, 2005.

Telemania 8 asciimation by brutto, 2005.

Impressive and silly. Or neither nor. Either.

Y O U - Moviekiss. Stop motion video made with 2400 frames of Lite Brite - a kids toy from the 1960s with glowing pixely arty.

Video made by Gina Niespodziani, 2006. Surprisingly good looking!

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.

Streamed video on teletext. World first! By Possan, together with us at Art Hack Day. If you’re in Stockholm tomorrow come check it out!

Streamed video on teletext. World first! By Possan, together with us at Art Hack Day. If you’re in Stockholm tomorrow come check it out!

Two titans of the digital era finally appears side by side! DX-7 music and ANSI patterns generated together in DX-Heaven, by Daniel Iglesia 2009.

By Davidppe (dvdp)