# ASCII Art × ANSI Art (BBS Scene) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=ascii-art+bbs-ansi
# ASCII Art carries the structure. ANSI Art (BBS Scene) appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from ASCII Art (Technique, 1960s–) and its accent from ANSI Art (BBS Scene) (Style, 1985–1997). Structural cues: Monospace characters; Character density; Terminal screens; Single color. Accent cues, used sparingly: 16-color text mode; Shaded block characters; Art-group signatures; The login-screen format. Composition: Fix the column width first and hard wrap so the figure holds. Type and lettering: Pick a monospace face and measure its line to character ratio first. Let one material quality come from the second style: Sixteen foreground and eight background colors, shading made by character density. Mood: Technology, Nostalgia, Play, Rebellion. Color: build on #101510, #74d66b, #d9ead4 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Lettering, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - ASCII Art: Type and leading differ on the reader's side, so art distributed without a fixed column width collapses into noise somewhere else.
# - ANSI Art (BBS Scene): Shown in a proportional environment the columns break and the picture is gone, so building without fixing display conditions destroys it.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/ascii-art/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/bbs-ansi/design.md