What is the ASCII Art Academy?
I created the ASCII Art Academy to bring articles, tutorials and other text art related resources together into one place. The purpose of this ASCII academy is completely educational. It is for people who want to learn more about the origin and use of this unique art form and artists who want to learn how to create this kind of art to carry forward the legacy of decades, if not centuries of other text artists before them. You can also find many good examples of the various types of text art in the art galleries on this website. Tools for the creation of ANSI and ASCII text art are available for free download here. What is ASCII Art? ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange and is a text format standard for computers. ASCII art is text art that was created on computers who use this ASCII standard. The text art created on the IBM PC, which use text characters beyond the ASCII standard are also called ASCII, even though it is technically incorrect. The IBM PC be
