[lubujackson]

I have a soft spot for ANSI art and secretly hope it has a reason to come back in a fresh way like pixel art has. The 1x2 blocks are just so iconic.

I fooled around making some tools to do stuff like parse a GIF of an ANSI back to ANSI and devolve a photo to (crummy) ANSI art the way some scripts do with ASCII, but it is pretty remedial compared to the code that exists for futzing with pixel art.

[IggleSniggle]

I suspect that you will appreciate rexpaint (and also the game it was created for, Cogmind):

https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/

If you are a fan of this aesthetic and would like to visit it in audio form, it’s more “Lofi inspired” but it checks all the right boxes for me; I also recommend checking out SunVox:

https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/

[ilaksh]

The LaGrange Gemini client supports ANSI foreground colors.

Gemini and Gopher have some good sites with ANSI art. Unfortunately I don't remember them off the top of my head.

[cp437]

what do you mean 'come back'? has it ever been away? https://16colo.rs/

[enriquto]

love your username, it suits perfectly your comment