Before revision: ANSI art 500px|The alphabet in Newskool (Note: artificially shrunk vertically) Dag Hammarskjöld, printout from teleprinter 1961–1962 ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
After revision: Yaju Senpai Ascii ArtANSI art 500px|The alphabet in Newskool (Note: artificially shrunk vertically) Dag Hammarskjöld, printout from teleprinter 1961–1962 ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).