Ascii Art is a form of artist expression using standard computer charactors and carefully measured spaces to draw images. It was developed before computer graphics were commonplace and charactors were non-proportional. For many years, this was the only way to "draw" on a computer.

With a long standing tradition with computer artists, ASCII Art has again become popular, this time as an addition to E-mail signatures. After all, a picture is still worth a thousand words and in this case, requires much less bandwidth to send. For some help developing your E-mail ACSII identity, try these links. Remember to use a non-proportional font like courier.