Heikki’s Garden of Flowers is a wonderful collection of “pre-ASCII art / pictorial typography / text art”. It was made by Heikki Lotvonen, who’s been collecting these for many years, and also does his own graphics and tools that have been here before.

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Zer0day by hOlocaust, 2026.

Мозгошум (22. Шум / Noise) by moroz1999, 2025. ZX Spectrum.

From SPECSCII Art by UriS, 2024.

h!tart by bfox, 2026. This is Specscii, meaning it’s the ASCII of the ZX Spectrum. 128 character font, 8 colours, and a resolution of 32×24.

h/t: SiXX

::Maligna Korrera; is a game prototype by Krzyhau, 2026.

BBS-ad for The Game Gallery, 1985. According to defacto2.net, it is the oldest ANSI BBS ad that has been preseved.

Textual Paint is a textmode version of MS Paint that runs in the terminal. Made by Isaiah Odhner.

Worms VBI is a game that runs on an Amiga computer, but displays as standard teletext on your TV. Made by AttentionWhore, 2023.

fungi.neocities.org is a site by Polyducks, who’s been featured here many times before. It features art by various artists, all using the JGS5-font by Adel Faure and a palette by Polyducks. Images above by Green Guy, Mozz, Will Griff and Polyducks.