Hebrew ASCII from the 1200s. Or micrography, as it’s also called.
On this page, the scribe has identified himself as Eliezer son of Samuel by creating a calligram in the shape of the letters of his own name. The calligram (lines of text of unequal length written in parallel rows and forming a design) is a continuation of the text of the previous page concerning the laws of the holiday of Sukkot.
Bedcover from 1219 (Sweden), via.
Mishneh Torah MS A 77. Northeaster France 1296
fol. II.117r, via
Square kufic (text) from the Friday Mosque of Herat, first built in 1200. Pics from here.
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.
