Behind a teapot and cup on a wooden outdoor table sweeps a bough heavily laden with cherry blossoms. In the far distance, across a lake, is visible a snowcapped mountaintop and the scraps of scanty pink clouds passing far above it.

Mistigram: #cherryblossom season is sweeping through Japan, so what better time to share this #textart screen, drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, celebrating a seasonal #tea service in the shadow of #Fujisan. It was included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

Gairaigo is now released!

Inspiration drawn from #Kanji, #Shoji, #Kumiko, and #Hanafuda. Get it now ->

littlebitspace.com/resources#Gairaigo

#ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #art #bbs #text #textart #textmode #typography #typedesign #design #pixel #pixelart #font #japan

Fuji in Bloom

New font in development. The second image is with default font

#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #pixelart #pixel #fuji #japan #japanese#sakura #bloom #landscape

Here's a quick list from the top of my head:
@adelfaure.bsky.social
@atonalosprey.bsky.social
@polyducks.bsky.social
ascii.mozz.us/mozz/
darokin.info

And for more great art and artists, check out our group:
@mistfunk.bsky.social

Thanks for the shoutout! For context, I have never used any scripts to generate textmode; they just don't have the same quality as hand-drawn stuff. The secret is that it's never a perfect rendition and the small changes is what truly matters.

In the end, it's just a skill I practiced quite a lot.

A skeletal figure hangs limply at rest, suspended by dark blue strings as a marionette, between two shadowy artist's mannequins in a dark storage area.

Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration, "Jouer le rôle" (play the role), is unmistakably from the desk of @littlebitspace.bsky.social , featuring a skeletal marionette dangling at rest between two artist's mannequins. It was included in the new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.

A smiling woman, illustrated in punctuation characters on a white background, leans toward the viewer.

Mistigram: this jolly #ASCIIart portrait of Olive was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social back in 2021. I'm not sure why we waited so long to share it, but it was included in the MIST0223 artpack collection released 3 years ago this month, and now we're finally getting around to showing it to you.

People

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #1bit #1bitart #people #crowd #skeleton #skull #graphicdesign #minimalist #minimalistic

Rows of elves and reindeer weep and mourn at the funeral of an implied Father Christmas, depicted only through a neatly gift-wrapped funeral casket.

Mistigram: The damn beautiful fool of an elf did it, he went too far this time, pulling off one last Christmas... but at what cost? This depiction of Santa's gift-wrapped funeral was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and LDA for this date in last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar.

Good news, Frosty: the latest round of chemotherapy appears to have been successful and the malignant tumours are in remission!

Mistigram: this jolly radiology image by @littlebitspace.bsky.social was shown when departing the ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar BBS door. We have now shown its entire slate of daily screens, but it still offers a couple of further unshared illustrations.

You shouldn't be able to miss it here
bsky.app/profile/mist...

That's exactly how I made card flip animation for my tarot cards!

You're not looking hard enough! Anything with a custom font has it for sure and many others (when applicable)

You forgot mine:
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Never!

Nothing's Real

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petscii #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #classical #classicalguitar #guitar #music #album #real #orisit

A skeletal Uncle Sam points a bony finger at the viewer and implores them to get into the Christmas spirit.

Mistigram: last year's ADVENT24 #ANSIart #AdventCalendar kicked off on Dec 1st with this incredible macabre @littlebitspace.bsky.social illustration of #UncleSam hyping up the crowd's patriotic involvement in festive seasonal cheer.

a skeleton skateboarder does a one-arm handstand mid-trick (holding his deck in his other bony claw) while the sun and moon wheel above his kicking foot-bones... all rendered in a woodcut style by way of monochrome ANSI art.

Mistigram: Bystanders observing this gnarly #sk8r dude might be moved to remark: siiiick! No: in fact, he is completely deceased! But not even death can keep a wicked shredder down. This monochrome #ANSIart #skeleton, titled #DanseMacabre, is the handiwork of @littlebitspace.bsky.social.

A clean human skull, formed entirely out of gothic letters and punctuation marks, meets the viewer's gaze dead-on.

Mistigram: this elegant #textmode #skull, given rather more texture through use of a remapped #ASCIIart font than the ANSI bonehead it appeared alongside in last month's spooky MIST1025 artpack collection, is of course the handiwork of @littlebitspace.bsky.social

A skull sits on a chess board, casting behind it the shadow of a crowned head.

Mistigram: this #PETSCII illustration by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, 'The Last Gambit', presents an existential scene, all of us kings in our games of #chess, all doomed to #checkmate. This piece was included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection released one year ago

A hooded skeleton paddles a small vessel through a river of the damned.

Mistigram: this illustration of #Charon paddling across the river #Styx was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and won 5th place in the #PETSCII compo at @flashparty.ar two years ago. It was included in the spooky MIST1023 artpack collection released two years ago last month.

A complete character set composed entirely of various confurations of femurs and skulls.

Mistigram: from the spooky new MIST1025 artpack collection, we are proud to present the boney 'Skeletext', the latest #TrueType #font from the @littlebitspace.bsky.social foundry.

The top piece of a human skull sits on a surface, entirely composed of diagonal lines

Mistigram: with a novel approach, this #PETSCII (yet another) #skull is formed entirely of diagonal strokes from commas, apostrophes, slashes & shaded blocks. This piece, drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social, was included in the spooky MIST1022 artpack collection released three years ago.

Keeping things fun, the artist has flayed the flesh from the face of the 19th Tarot card of the Major Arcana, the Sun. (If you like, you can imagine that this is the skull of the solar Teletubbies baby, continuing to burn luminously in the sky even after the baby itself has died and mouldered away. How equally festive for both summer and Halloween!)

Mistigram: This #teletext screen skullifying the 19th #Tarot card of the Major Arcana was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social as an entry for the Summer of Teletext 2023 Summer Postcard compo. It was also included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack released one year ago this month.

Under The Spell | 3rd place #petscii at Flashparty 2025

#ascii #asciiart #art #bbs #c64 #commodore64 #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #petsciiart #retro #retroart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #classicalart #women #nude #naked #night #moon #magic

вечер | 3rd place #teletext at Flashparty 2025

#art #teletextart #pixelart #demoscene #textmode #textmodeart #ascii #asciiart #digitalart #computerart #8bitart #8bit #1bitart #1bit #bbs #ceefax #tekstitv #coffee #tea #evening #cozy

A four-armed, four-legged skeleton stands spread-eagle in a square in a circle.

Mistigram: #LeonardoDaVinci used his #VitruvianMan design to model ideal proportions, but @littlebitspace.bsky.social found there was still one area for improvement, & stripped the obfuscating flesh from those beautiful bones in this #teletext adaptation, included in last year's spooky MIST1024.

In front of the calligraphed words Memento Te Mori, a person stands in front of a mirror and sees their skeleton looking back at them.

Mistigram: Memento te mori means Remember you must die, & mortality is sure on the mind of the person looking in this mirror. @littlebitspace.bsky.social won 1st place with it in the #PETSCII compo at last year's @flashparty.ar ! It was also included in the spooky MIST1024 artpack collection

→ littlebitspace.com ←

[x] website updated to 2.0
[x] fonts released

This is what you've been waiting for. The font drop is here!

#ascii #asciiart #art #textmode #website #typography #font #typedesign #demoscene #drop

A black cat side-eyes the viewer, unimpressed.

Mistigram: this greyscale #PETSCII portrait of ndh's black #cat, Kiki, was drawn by @littlebitspace.bsky.social and included in last month's #cat-themed MIST0725 artpack collection.