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by california-og
678 days ago
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ASCII just refers to the 7bit standard, so if we are pedantic ASCII art is just art using the printable characters of the 128 code points defined in it. Font size doesn't have anything to do with it. But ASCII art is used as an umbrella term, encompassing a variety of different standards, character sets and fonts. There are a bunch of square ASCII, like PETSCII, ATASCII and even PC ASCII can be rendered with a 8x8 cp437 font. We don't need to gatekeep what "qualifies" as ASCII art. |
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Note that e.g. PETSCII, while internally 8x8, would be displayed using non-square pixels[1] - also not resulting in square letters.
[1]: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/13871