ASCII Catz by Kayla Mattes, 2012.
2024-update: project page @ archive.org
By David Daniels. Taken from his book The Gates of Paradise (2000) that contains works made since 1984. Available at UbuWeb.
From the book Typerformance: Analogies, Drawings & Patterns With Letterforms From a Collection of Student Work, edited by Roger Ferriter 1983. Copied from Alex Tyson’s Tumblr.
By Karl Kempton


By Marge Roemer in the 1950s. She published her book Fun With Your Typewriter in 1956, and it was reviewed by a magazine called Woman’s Day. It has a conservative house-wife/secretary kind of vibe to it.
“Now that fall is upon us, you may find this typewriter cartooning useful in turning out entertaining programs, posters and place cards, appropriately illustrated, for school or club affairs.”
(via ascii-art)
Videoplace by Myron Krueger at the University of Connecticut’s Artificial Reality Lab, 1985. Only vaguely related to textmode, but…
By Markham, 2010. It seems to use custom characters and colours. Found here, in a thread about Melly’s ASCII-Paint, which seems to have been based on another ASCII-Paint, developed 2009-2011.
Post updated in 2024.