Text art by Henry Segerman, 2003. Made with the Celtic Knot Font.
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Old Tibetan calligraphy by Tshe-tan Zhabs-drung ཚེ་ཏན་ཞབས་དྲུང followed by the Tibetan Phags-pa fonts by Babelstone and the square Mongolian style of Phags-pa used for decoration.
Seems to originate from the 1200s and is sometimes called square script. Also see the arabic square kufi.
The Hellschreiber teleprinter, used by the German military for telecommunications in the 1930s. Due to its pixel-based font, it performed better than the typewriter-based technologies at the time.
The strange machine photo is a receiver. You can see the “mechanical font memory” in action here. Also, listen to the transmission sounds here.
This system is still being used by some radio amateurs.
ASCII font by Carine Bigot, 2010. Images also from here. Two of these are animated GIFs – if they don’t move, just click on them.
Examples of figlet fonts, as found here. Internet!
The font of the Japanese computer NEC PC-9801. The line at the top is basically Western ASCII, and the rest is the Japanese characters. Japanese ASCII-art is often called shift_JIS or AA (for Ascii Art).
Watch it in full-size. Thanks to Daniel Rehn for the tip.