ASCII Art

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:14:47 +0100

This post exists to simply share a link with you: https://ascii.rest This website collects “ASCII Art”. Which are pictures drawn with symbols from the ASCII character set.

As a character set ASCII has long been superseded by UTF-8. A much larger character set. UTF-8 contains every symbol to represent every language there is. You can also do funny things, such as writing your name 𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓴 𝓿𝓸𝓷 𝓡𝓸𝓽𝔃 in a fancy font without, eh well, using a font.

The interesting thing about ascii.rest is that for every art there is also the code that creates or animates it. It is truly digital art with source code.

Utf8 on Janik von Rotz

ASCII Art