[thiht]

Wow so clever. That totally solves the need to show logos and images, colors, formatting, centering things, making things visually appealing, etc.

Can you conceive your needs and your basic understanding of an issue is not, in fact, the whole thing?

[rossdavidh]

There is no "need" to show logos and images, etc. etc. In fact, far from making things visually appealing, all of that tells me (and most other people) "this is an email which I can safely delete without reading", precisely because real people not trying to sell you something rarely do that.

[thiht]

> There is no "need" to show logos and images, etc.

…yes, there is. Email is a communication medium, and like in all written communication, an image can be useful. Do I really need to explain that images are useful in human communication?

> and most other people

According to you I guess?

[memefrog]

I am not an infant. I do not read picture books.

[thiht]

Oh yeah, completely forgot that pictures are only useful for infants.

[asielen]

Or scientific papers?

[hyperman1]

I believe there is a human need for images, but also that only text is still capable of creating a lot more than you'd expect.

When email was monospace text, the whole ASCII art thing was glorious. People added ANSI escape codes and gave us e.g. the glowing, blinking Chernobyl cows, in plain email. I also remember seeing a giant ASCII art 'high-res' nude somewhere, intended to be printed on a matrix printer, on 5 or 6 pages of continuous paper (Long-legged she was.)

Writing this, I wonder what desperate marketing attention whores would produce with ASCII art.

[JimDabell]

You might find this amusing:

https://email.uplers.com/blog/pixel-art-in-email-design-insp...

Pizza Express made a habit of this for a number of years.