Xerxes I inscription by Van Castle in Turkey, ca 470 BCE. A cuneiform inscription in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.
Amiga ASCII by Hellbeard, 2014. Taken from New Horizons (for Impure 1940) and To build a fire (and keep it going) (for Divine Stylers).
Peter Ström from Konst & Teknik has designed for the ISSUES gallery using no less than 57 fonts, which has earned him an FIU award for stupid records. h/t: Roel Nieskens
PETSCII XFILES by fakewaffles, 2018.
Put the fox through the life phaser, fakewaffles, 2014. PETSCII with video effects.
More fakewaffles here.
Study Rug by Anni Albers, based on the original design from 1926.
By Karl Kempton and Loris Essary. Selections from WIRED, made with typewriter and letraset 1985-1986, according to RENEGADE.
Other Kempton works here.
A fragment of a dharani woodblock print in Sanskrit and Chinese, c. 650–670, Tang dynasty. More info (in Chinese).
A woodblock print of Pratisara Dharani from the 700s. It’s a buddhist talisman written in Sanskrit and it was found in modern day China. Carrying printed texts like this was believed to be beneficial for the person in life or afterlife.
Source: Jahyun Kim (2020) Korean Single-Sheet Buddhist Woodblock Illustrated Prints Produced for Protection and Worship