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ASCII Art Archive, my own ASCII signature, plus many FIGlet and TOIlet ASCII font art links

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/11

Earlier this year I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Archive

This brought back instant memories about ASCII art, so in the future expect af few unfinished blog-posts that were in my “if I ever get to it archive” about it.

Let me start with my very limited ASCII art I used in late 1980s and early 1990s newsgroup and LISTSERV mailing list signature I reconstructed from a comp.virus post¹ having some very old contact data²:

    o  _   _  _   _   _            voice: +31-2522-20908 (18:00-24:00 UTC)
   /  (_' |  (_) (_' | |           snail: P.S.O.
__/                                       attn. Jeroen W. Pluimers
                                          P.O. Box 266
jeroenp@rulfc1.LeidenUniv.nl              2170 AG Sassenheim
jeroen_pluimers@f521.n281.z2.fidonet.org  The Netherlands

Shortly after that, my main source of income moved from the command-line to GUI based tools, so I temporarily kind of lost interest in command-line tools and customs. In that period FIGlet (see below) got created, which I totally missed (though I vaguely remember the 1.0 version being named newban).

The link at the start of this blog post not only pointed me to FIGlet, but also has a lot of examples (like some [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Logos – asciiart.eu) of which many by ASCII artist Joan Stark, and also links to JavaScript based tools:

draw ASCII art [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Draw Studio – Ascii Art Archive
convert images to ASCII art [Wayback/Archive] Image to ASCII: Free ASCII Art Converter

[Wayback/Archive] Webcam to ASCII Art: Turn Your Stream into Art
convert text to ASCII art [Wayback/Archive] Text to ASCII: The best ASCII Art Generator & Maker based on FIGlet (see below)
create ASCII art patterns [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Art Pattern Maker (not yet ready)
create ASCII art night skies [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Night Sky Generator
create ASCII art mazes [Wayback/Archive] ASCII Maze Generator – Create Labyrinths in ASCII Art

Not JavaScript, but important: [Wayback/Archive] ASCIIart.eu Acknowledgments

Not sure which of the above like most: I was too excited to bump into the link in the first place (:

All of these reminded me of eons ago of which I already posted some before but never correctly marked them, so I browsed through my blog posts and added a new category ASCII art / AsciiArt « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff. Eventually, the unfinished blog posts will also appear under that category.

In addition to the above JavaScript category, this link dump:

Note that both FIGlet nor TOIlet hardly ever gets updates any more. Consider both projects stable legacy, showing the beauty of the past still in use today.

There is more: like for instance colourised ASCII art, animation and more!

Queries:

Via:

--jeroen

¹ This was back in the days when I was active in the anti-virus scene; signature archived from:

² None of the contact data is current: they have not been used since 1994 (address and phone) and 1999 (fidonet, see Going to try PowerLine (next to CAT5, and having used 10Base2, 10Base-T, 100Base-TX and 1000Base-T)). Don’t try to contact using those: you might bother other people.

The company with initial trade register number 28050560 and later 34091780 got converted to an LTD.

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