awesome-ascii-art

A curated list of ASCII Art resources

Definitions and specifications

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8140.txt
• Special case, RFC for writing RFCs:
  • https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7322.txt
  • https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2223.txt (deprecated by 7322)
  • https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7990.txt
• https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-vs-markdown/

Services

• telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
• http://www.asciimation.co.nz

Programs

• https://linux.die.net/man/1/cowsay
  • underestimated, it's actually a framework :)
• sl (steam locomotive)
• https://apps.apple.com/us/app/askey/id950935054
• https://github.com/moul/moulsay
• https://github.com/moul/ascii2svg
• http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
• https://github.com/venam/ascii2svg
• http://github.com/getmillipede
• https://github.com/moul/sapin
• https://github.com/ivanceras/svgbob
• https://github.com/sigvef/sigvehtml

Golf

• https://github.com/moul/junk/blob/master/c/sapin/sapin.withkorfu.c

Galleries

• https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/gallery.html
• https://www.asciiart.eu

Editors

• https://monodraw.helftone.com/
• https://github.com/atom/ascii-art

Online Editors

• http://patorjk.com/software/taag/
• http://asciiflow.com/
• https://www.alt-codes.net/editor.php

Libraries

Multi-languages

• http://github.com/getmillipede

C

• http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

GO

• https://godoc.org/moul.io/moulsay/moulsay
• https://godoc.org/moul.io/ascii2svg/ascii2svg
• https://github.com/gizak/termui

ASCII Art powered content

• http://www.phrack.org/
• https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/
• https://www.monokai.nl/

Interesting or fun articles about ASCII Art

• https://www.bortzmeyer.org/rfc-en-texte-brut.html
• https://manfred.life/ascii-art-place-ideas
• https://blog.sourcerer.io/ascii-art-dead-or-alive-cc237391e5d8
• https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-HTML-TECHS/#ascii-art
• https://github.com/github/markup

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