ASCII Art Archive

A collection of original text art from Your World of Text.

For a compilation of non-ASCII art relating to YWOT, see YWOT Fan Works.

For a collection of simple ASCII assets to play around with, see Spawn Animals and Factions.

For a collection of ASCII cities, see Miscellaneous Cities.

rcatface

Rcatface, also known by their signature RCF, was one of the site's most popular artists from 2012 to 2015.

Below are some of Catface's early creations from 2012.

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  Laputa(2012)
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  Atlantis(2012)
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  Dwarka(2012)

By 2013, they have learned to create art using unicodes.

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  Catface's Scenic Detour from 2015 North Road
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  Scenic Detour Pt. 2
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  A tribute to the North Road elevator
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RCF's later creations, 2014 and onwards, have utilized a blend of unicodes and traditional ASCII characters.

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  "MERRY CHRISTMAS//HOME SWEET HOME"
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  "PORTRAIT OF KITTENPANTZ AS A CATLOAF"
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  From /~mr_j_/typeville in 2014.

kkb

A renowned ASCII artist known for creating art using both unicodes and traditional ASCII characters.

KKB is a gold standards for all YWOT artists to aspire to.

(At some point they moved all of their art to https://ourworldoftext.com/kkb.)

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Trolls

Collabs

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MichaelHawke/YWOT Mormons

The mormons of old YWOT are known for their pristine architecture, some of which are still present on the Mainpage to this day.

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Dan_The_Man

An early 2010s user known for making trippy shapes.

• See more at /~Dan_The_Man/
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Poopman

Makes art using unicode lines and blocks.

• SpaceFighters Concept Art
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• /~poopman/ART_BLOCKS
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CheezChopper

Makes unicode drawings and fonts.

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"Boxy"

MercurySigma7

A veteran user(most active around 2017 and 2018) who enjoys making detailed architecture and trains.

MercurySigma7 prefers to only use traditional ASCII characters.

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Mynyny

Makes small unicode drawings in various places throughout the Mainpage.

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Kylaxial

A prolific artist and explorer who was active from 2020 to 2022.

Kylaxial is known for making extravagant patterns and monuments.

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  January 7th, 2020
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  May 22nd, 2021
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  December 2021
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  February 20th, 2022

February 7th, 2022

Credrscr

Credrscr is a user who has been making ASCII art on and off since 2021.

They are known to find simple assets from Spawn and expand upon them, creating massive abominations of Wack.

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Kiki

Kiki is perhaps the most talented ASCII artists to have appeared on YWOT in recent years. In early 2022 they would frequently produce high quality drawings at Spam Central.

Though they have been mostly inactive since 2022, Kiki is still present on OWOT(and possibly YWOT) as a lurker.

Gallery

*A few of these might not actually have been from Kiki, for the most part I just included every high quality drawing from that period.

All but a few were created at Spawn from February to April of 2022.

Some of the images below are sourced from Kiki's Deviant Art page.

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• Mansion(Constructed near Spam Central from February 19th to February 21st, 2022)
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  February 19th, 2022
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  February 19th, 2022
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  February 19th, 2022
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  February 20th, 2022
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  February 20th, 2022
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  February 21st, 2022
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  February 21st, 2022
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  February 21st, 2022

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OWOT Art

Kiki also made art on Our World of Text, where they are known as Meimei.

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MHZ

Mankiller by Kiki

Kiki is reportedly a former member of the Man Hating Zone who was kicked out for unknown reasons. Curiously, their appearance on YWOT coincided with a resurgence in MHZ activity.

Any number of the art from ourworldoftext.com/mhz could have been made by Kiki, though it must be noted that the MHZ does have a history of fostering artistic talent. (Specifically, two of Kiki's drawings from YWOT can be found at X:444 Y:444 in the MHZ world.)

• Various MHZ Art From OWOT
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Mandrake

Primarily a pixel artist, but can also make intricate drawings using unicodes.

They have also created songs and pixel art inspired by YWOT.

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  Mandrake(January 1st, 2022)
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  Beetroot(January 1st, 2022)
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  Something from Omori(April 29th, 2022)

Anonymoosellama21

Anonymousellama21 is an explorer and scripter who has been on the site for a good many years.

They are also known to make some really neat ASCII art, mostly of buildings and vehicles.

Noman

Creator of the No Tower.

Noman, also known as Kiparisa, specializes in art made of block unicodes.

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Yosicat

2022

Yosicat is an artist who has been improving rapidly since 2022, when gained his reputation by drawing birds and Touhou characters. Yosicat also created the YWOT Farm and is one of YWOT's foremost bunny aficionados.

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  Ongezellig Characters(May - June, 2022)
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  Recreation of a popular Shift-JIS piece in ASCII art form(August 9th, 2022)
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  An Eggnog World ride(August 21st, 2022)
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  August 2022
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  Experiment in drawing birds(October 26th, 2022)
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  Flamingos(November 19th, 2022)
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  The Lord of All Wack
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  A creature of The Wack

By 2023, Yosicat had developed a knack for making detailed illustrations of video game/anime characters, most notably from the Touhou Project series. During this period, Yosicat used slashes and underscores in order to create curved lines.

Anthropomorphized YWOT bunny. This was an early experiment in copying Kiki's method of drawing lines(September 2024).

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  Celeste from Danganronpa(Created during college, 2024)
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By 2024, Yosicat had begun using dotted characters(Ex. parentheses, periods and backticks) in his art. This allowed for less jagged curves and an overall cleaner look for his drawings. Yosicat cites Kiki as his primary inspiration and derived much of his growth from mimicking her artstyle.

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  An experiment in using Kana characters in ASCII art(September 2024)
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  A rendition of Mr. Black's icon(September 22nd, 2024)
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Dino

Local AM enthusiast. Wants to marry A.M.(Allied Mastercomputer) from I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison.

Dino first appeared in 2022 and is still semi-active as of 2024. They have a vision for the future; a wonderful, horrific vision; one which they manifest in the form of ASCII art.

They may or may not be the same person as AngryDino42.

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Chenn

Chenn has been making ASCII art since 2023.

Their first contributions were from the Faction Era of Spam Central, during which they created Chenn Industries and the Chennoids.

Later on they built a southern counterpart to Noman's No Tower, which features many instances of original art along the way.

As of 2024 Chenn is known to make occasional pieces of art at Spawn. They are also working on a Blender animation project based on YWOT assets.

The Mechanist(July 8th, 2024)

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LiquidVicinity

LiquidVicinity is a user who found the site in 2023.

Since then they have been involved in a variety of activities, ranging from ASCII art to scripting and exploration. They were also responsible for creating the wiki you're reading this on.

February 7th, 2024

February 7th, 2024

July 2024

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  February 14th, 2024

• Void City(See also The Void)
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  Void City rebuilt in collaboration with Chenn(August 9th, 2023)

June 6th, 2024

Hermighty

From /~Hermighty

An artist from 2023. Hermighty was first seen at Spawn, where they created an ASCII castle along with several other artists.

Today their creations can still be found in certain parts of the Mainpage.

*Note: Hermighty doesn't sign their art, so it's unclear whether any of the stuff here actually belongs to them. But they do seem to have a recognizable art style composed of unicode lines and blocks.

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Rai_Ah

First seen in 2023.

Makes tentacle hearts and other unicode art all across the site.

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Mr. Black

Creates art using unicode cubes.

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Mr. 1052

Primarily an OWOT artist but has been posting drawings in YWOT since late 2024.

Mr. 1052 makes 'small guys' using standard ASCII characters with the occasional unicode thrown in.

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ASCII Art Gallery

• A collection of miscellaneous ASCII art, most of which were created by anonymous users.
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  By Dr. Finitevus(May/April 2010)
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  By Dr. Finitevus(May/April 2010)
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  June 12th, 2010
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  By 8-Bit City(December 2nd, 2011)
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  November 1st, 2013
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  November 1st, 2013
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  Between 2010 and 2015
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  By (R?)CatFace(c. 2015)
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  Screenshot by FP(May 2018)
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  By ??Ioannes??(July 24th, 2018)
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  2019
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  December 20th, 2019
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  By HypnoticToothpaste(August 22nd, 2020)
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  November 12th, 2020
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  By HypnoticToothpaste(January 19th, 2021)
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  By Acinnabun and Ran(February 12th, 2021)
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  February 12th, 2021
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  March 1st, 2021
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  March 15th, 2021
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  June 27th, 2021
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  Possibly by Moomin(August 11th, 2021)
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  September 12th, 2021
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  October 2nd, 2021
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  By Seschient(February 10th, 2022)
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  February 11th, 2022
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  February 19th, 2022
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  February 24th, 2022
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  March 11th, 2022
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  March 12th, 2022
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  March 12th, 2022
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  April 10th, 2022
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  July 8th, 2022
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  October 7th, 2022
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  December 8th, 2022
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  Late 2022
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  By AverageBackyardTree(2023)
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  By Seschient(March 1st, 2023)
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  By AngryDino42(October 13th, 2023)
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  March 2024
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  July 23rd, 2024
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  February 23rd, 2025
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  Luke's House(April 8th, 2025)
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  Modified version of griefed Kiki art from 2022(April 15th, 2025)

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Trivia

• A user named /~gnat has been backing up ASCII art from Spawn since 2022.
  • They are known to periodically paste old art around Spam Central.
• Most ASCII art on YWOT is copied from external websites. Notable collections of text art include asciiart.website, ascii.co.uk, ascii art dictionary, and asciiart.eu, all of which are consisted exclusively of drawings made in the late 90s or early 2000s.
  • Art taken from online archives tends to be more polished than original art, and there's also a width limit due to the text editors that ASCII veterans used to make their drawings.
  • A signature(usually two or three letters like jgs) is also a sign that a drawing was taken from archives. Though sometimes the signature will be erased, and it's not inconceivable that some YWOT artists would want to sign their works in a similar format.
  • Another thing to note is that most ASCII art archives only collect drawings made from standard keyboard characters, so unicodes like "￣" or " ´ " are usually indicators of original art.
    • There are select archives that include unicodes, but art from these websites tend to be extremely simple(Ex.)
    • In general, however, complex ASCII art that contains a mixture of standard and unicode characters are almost always original to YWOT(or one of its sister websites).
• There is a userpage named after Adel Faure, a popular ASCII artist. It is unknown whether the page is owned by the real Adel Faure.
• Similarly there is a page named after Mozz, another ASCII artist.
  • A user named Mozz was seen in early 2021 as a part of Acinnabun's coalition. The first piece of ASCII art posted on ascii.mozz.us would be created later that year.
• In the old days of YWOT, Andrew Badr would allow ASCII artists to redesign the box at the center of the Mainpage.
  • Some of these designs might have been created by Andrew himself.

• User-Designed Spawn Boxes
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  March 23rd, 2015
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  May 2nd, 2015
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  September 2015
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  July 19th, 2020