ANSI Art
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'''ANSI Art''' is a variant on [[ASCII Art]] which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the [[MS-DOS encodings|IBM PC code page]] which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the 1980s. | '''ANSI Art''' is a variant on [[ASCII Art]] which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the [[MS-DOS encodings|IBM PC code page]] which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the 1980s. | ||
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ANSI Art is a variant on ASCII Art which uses ANSI escape sequences in addition to ASCII characters in order to do things like changing colors. It also uses characters from the IBM PC code page which aren't part of ASCII, allowing a wider range of characters including various graphical symbols and box-drawing characters. This sort of art was popular on bulletin board systems in the 1980s.
