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ASCII art

visual art genre using plain-text characters (any character set) to draw pictures
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ASCII art

Summary

ASCII art is an art genre[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of art_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (910 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • ASCII art's video is recorded as Copter gif.gif[3].
  • ASCII art's image is recorded as Fish-shell-logo-ascii-black.svg[4].
  • ASCII art's image is recorded as SombraASCIISkull.svg[5].
  • ASCII art's instance of is recorded as art genre[6].
  • ASCII art's instance of is recorded as type of graphics[7].
  • ASCII art's follows is recorded as typewriter art[8].
  • ASCII art's subclass of is recorded as digital art[9].
  • ASCII art's subclass of is recorded as plain text[10].
  • ASCII art's subclass of is recorded as visual artwork[11].
  • ASCII art's Commons category is recorded as ASCII art[12].
  • ASCII art's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0tz6[13].
  • ASCII art's topic's main category is recorded as Category:ASCII art[14].
  • ASCII art's Curlie ID is recorded as World/Español/Artes/ASCII/[15].
  • ASCII art's Curlie ID is recorded as World/Türkçe/Kültür_ve_Sanat/Görsel_Sanatlar/ASCII_Sanatı/[16].
  • ASCII art's Curlie ID is recorded as World/Russian/Искусство/Изобразительное_искусство/ASCII/[17].
  • ASCII art's Curlie ID is recorded as Arts/Visual_Arts/ASCII_Art/[18].
  • ASCII art's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/ASCII-art[19].
  • ASCII art's topic has template is recorded as Template:AA[20].
  • ASCII art's different from is recorded as typewriter art[21].
  • ASCII art's different from is recorded as ASCII art[22].
  • ASCII art's uses is recorded as Q8815[23].
  • ASCII art's uses is recorded as ASCII art[24].
  • ASCII art's uses is recorded as character[25].
  • ASCII art's hashtag is recorded as ASCIIart[26].
  • ASCII art's typeface/font used is recorded as monospaced typeface[27].

Why It Matters

ASCII art ranks in the top 7% of art_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (910 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 53 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

cowsay Emacs Artist Mode

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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