I make retrofuturistic tech designs completely made out of text

[u/knny0x]

[u/thcjek]

This is peak digital art.

[u/knny0x → u/thcjek]

Thank you for the very generous comment 🙏

[u/knny0x]

I also have on my website all the tools I use to make these pieces, under the "resources" tab. My process usually starts off with finding a piece of tech from a schematic manual I find online, or an image of a piece of tech that piques my interest, and assemble an ascii version of the flat topology. Then I'll insert the background and foreground colors, and superimpose larger text characters that don't fit inside the grid of ASCII text. The larger text and font choices are entirely an aesthetic choice, and I find that most ASCII art I see doesn't utilize the modern tools we have today and are stuck in the past. My goal is to modernize text art in a way that feels like it's not restricted to technological limitations of glass teletypes of a past time, and instead try to portray a sort of technological spirituality, as if looking at the art should be a revelation.

[u/memester_zoin]

DUDE AMAZING WORK!! If you could frame these (glass, wooden frame allat) I feel like people would definitely be very keen to buy them, I know I would buy.

Again, sick work my dude!

[u/knny0x → u/memester_zoin]

Thank you 🙏 you’re in luck, I sell these on my site’s print shop and offer people the option to ship with a frame.

[u/memester_zoin → u/knny0x]

I just saw some of your other work as well, they look fantastic mate. I love your renders!!

[u/Kipper_TD]

It must’ve taken a lot of hard work to reach this point. Congratulations and keep on going!

[u/Tickomatick]

These look blasting! Awesome work!

[u/iTwango]

Super cool!!

[u/Jouvuilhond]

Very cool!

[u/doggo-business]

fantastic!

[u/DoofDilla]

Amazing designs, beautiful!

I was an ansi/ascii artist a very long time ago, did some stuff for iCE, ACiD and QTiP and your designs remind me of that time. Great work.

[u/coolaspotatos]

Holy smokes this is incredible stuff.

[u/knny0x → u/coolaspotatos]

Thank you 🙏

[u/0lazy0]

I love this so much

[u/Fun_Tell_7441]

Incredible and stunnig.

[u/80_A-D]

I LOVE this.

[u/Lapis_Wolf]

Did some of them glitch?

[u/knny0x → u/Lapis_Wolf]

The glitch is on purpose, that’s the whole point

[u/7stroke]

Not true! I see rectangles also!

[u/knny0x → u/7stroke]

When I say everything I mean everything. The rectangles are sometimes stretched period symbols [ . ] - when you blow a period sign up it’s actually a square.