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Products that do what Artpacks.org – Archive of the ANSI and ASCII art scene (1990 to present) does

1. 1MA
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   2015 · monodraw.com

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   Fragments▲86

   Design/Dev/Art news

   2020

3. 3
   ASCII Prints▲169

   ASCII art on your wall ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   2016

4. 4BT
   Building terminal dashboards using ASCII/ANSI art and JavaScript▲305

   2015 · github.com

5. 5IB
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   2021 · github.com

6. 6AA
   ASCII Art with Overstrike▲77

   2019 · github.com

7. 7AA
   An ASCII z-depth world (view source)▲44

   2018 · burrow.jollo.org

8. 8GO
   Garden of Flowers – an archive of pictorial typography before ASCII art▲162

   Hey all, I made this. The archive started with my 2015 BA thesis on Amiga ASCII art when I was curious about the history of ASCII art but found very little on text art that came before it. The historical precursors are often attributed to typewriter art and shaped/visual poetry, but I think letterpress is overlooked. So, I got slightly obsessed and started a personal database of pictures built entirely from metal type, ornaments, and rule, some going back to the 1600s. After eight years, I've managed to find ~2500 images. My friend Adel Faure built the website so it's now browseable by…

   Jun 2026 · garden-of-flowers.heikkilotvonen.com

9. 9IB
   I built a reverse image search for pixel art▲129

   2021 · github.com

10. 10AA
    Ansiwave, an ANSI art and MIDI music mashup▲103

    2021 · github.com

11. 11
    Anicons▲112

    A customisable icon library for motion designers

    2014

12. 12AA
    ANSI art renderer in JavaScript/Canvas▲47

    2012 · atdt.github.com

13. 13AS
    A stream of AI-generated art▲277

    2020 · art42.net

14. 14WB
    Web-based ANSI art viewer▲29

    My love letter to ANSI art. Full width rendering, scrolling by baud rate, text is selectable, and more. There are some example links at the top if you're feeling lucky.

    Mar 2026 · sure.is

15. 15AA
    Ascii Art to Data URI▲17

    2016 · jollo.org

16. 16
    ArtSquare▲113

    Your artworks digitized by experts

    2015

17. 17AR
    Art Resources and Tutorials Website▲109

    2019 · artres.xyz

18. 18
    The Sketchbook Project▲87

    A crowd-sourced library of Sketchbooks

    2014

19. 19
    Asky▲136

    ASCII art as a service ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

    2015

20. 20AT
    Ascii_tree – A way to create beautiful ASCII trees▲79

    2019 · github.com

21. 21ES
    Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts▲51

    Hi, I designed and developed a spatial index that maps museum artefacts as connecting arcs/hyperlinks from their origin site to institutional location/sources. The Index specifically looks at western/euro-american institutions and maps their collection categorised by them under Islamic art, Asian/African art, ethnological collections, Middle East, South America etc. Started as my MA thesis in 2022, kept building since, mostly solo with a little funding. Fully open source, self-hosted, AGPL-3.0, Next.js + Deck.gl on the frontend, Strapi backend, Python ETL pulling from…

    Jul 2026 · exsitu.app

22. 22SE
    Smile - executable ASCII art (2011 remastered)▲25

    2021 · github.com

23. 23
    Make 8-Bit Art!▲107

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24. 24AM
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