ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. The term is also loosely used to refer to text-based visual art in general. ANSI art The alphabet in Newskool (Note: artificially shrunk vertically) Dag Hammarskjöld, printout from teleprinter 1961–62ĪSCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). 'Oldskool' or 'Amiga' style 'Newskool' style 'Block' or 'High ASCII' style, cf.
