Text art tools

This is my list, thanks for sharing!

It started out as a list for ASCII and textmode art editors but grew to include all kinds of alternative design tools. I've hosted two workshops where the assigment is to create a printed zine without the use of any Adobe software. I give this list to the participants to explore. The scans of these zines and more info can be found here:

https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...

https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...

I think its crazy that my University (Aalto) pays over a million euros in licencing fees to Adobe every year while the design teachers are chronically overworked and understaffed. My ultimate goal is to persuade the institution to ditch Adobe and switch to FOSS tools, and hire more staff & teachers.

Slanted magazine did an issue recently on digital tools and compiled their own list:

https://www.slanted.de/news/digital-tools/

The issue has screenshots of many of them: https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-magazine-47-digital-t...

I built this [1] for myself so that I can comment lgtm in PR comments with an ASCII art. Pretty silly but fun.

[1]: LGTM ASCII Art as a Service - https://lgtms.app/

Wrote this for fun over a decade ago. Still around.

https://animasci.com/

I made these to create styled text art for the MOTD of my university's HPC login node:

https://github.com/ScriptSmith/tart

https://tart.sh/

How does notion manage to make this site, which is essentially just a static table, take several seconds to show any meaningful content?

The ASCII playground is missing:

https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz