Lena Weber makes incredible variable typefaces that are very graphical, like Gradial used here. It doesn’t look like it, but all this is made of (variable) text characters. Like these:
Dromeda (aka Andromeda) by Bob Carr, 1980. PETSCII-animation running on the PET computer.
By Tameem Sankari, with PETSCII characters (mostly?), 2022/2023.
By Tameem Sankari, with PETSCII characters (mostly?), 2022/2023.
vagonparavoz: “Well, let’s type a cat 👌🎨”