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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Here’s a few font experiments, more or less sensible, that you should be aware of:
Xbin works (ANSI with custom fonts and colours) made by participants in Heikki Lotvonen‘s (grmmxi) workshop at the Estonian Academy of Arts. via sixteencolors
Valto Malmiola’s portrait of Sibelius, 1937. It was made with 30,000 so-called rules – strips of metal, often brass or type-cast metal, used for printing lines since the 1500’s.
More works by Valto Malmiola, made with the same technique, 1938-1943.
Images and info from Typographic Art of Valto Malmiola by Heikki Lotvonen, 2023. He mentions that for example Carl Fasol used this technique before Malmiola.
Made in Microsoft Word by Shaheer Zazai. Don’t miss the videos! h/t: Heikki Lotvonen
Poly Kicks ASCII t-shirt, designed by Heikki Lotvonen. Available here.
Album covers remade in the (post-)textmode tool Glyph Drawing by students at KADK, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Thanks to Heikki Lotvonen for sharing.
Heikki Lotvonen‘s reproduction of an 1860’s typographic ornamentation using his own Glyph Drawing software that you can try out here.
Glyphdrawing, a new online textmode editor that supports ttf-font import and independent font size and cell size. Made by grmmxi (images from his Instagram) and Ian Tuomi.
