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ASCII art

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

ASCII art is an art genre[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of art genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,277 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: type of graphics[3]
  • Follows: typewriter art[4]
  • Subclass of: digital art[5], plain text[6], visual artwork[7]
  • Commons category: ASCII art[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:ASCII art[9]
  • Topic has template: Template:AA[10]
  • Different from: typewriter art[11], ASCII art[12]
  • Uses: ASCII[13], ASCII art[14], character[15]
  • Hashtag: ASCIIart[16]
  • Typeface/font used: monospaced typeface[17]

Why It Matters

ASCII art has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

Related Entities

cowsay Emacs Artist Mode

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    On focus list of wikimedia project → Q140249898
    Topic has template → Template:AA
    Follows → typewriter art
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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