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I like the simplicity of ascii art. Not only that you can make art with just the characters, you can show it whereever because its just text. You can use it in emails or simple text files. Its also a good media for the gemini space especially for those who use clients that run in a terminal window.
In times of typewriters I liked to "paint" pictures with that clicky machine of my mother.
Later I made some pictures with the petsci font of my commodore64.
Today I discovered the ascii art editor aewan. Its a neat editor and you can "draw" with everything you can access with your keyboard + the boxes characters. I wish there where more options to also access to the deeper layers of ascii or utf-8 character sets, but its what it is. Just simple text.
Instead just saving txt, it saves the graphics in a binary format, what i consider uncommon for an ascii art editor. This way, its easier to copy/paste your work from the terminal window.
Tell me if you know a better editor.