ANSI Art (BBS Scene)
ANSIアート / 1985–1997 / Style / Text-based Imagery
Login screens and group art packs drawn in the 16-color text mode of the BBS age. Block-character shading and inter-group competition made the summit of pre-web screen decoration.
16-color text mode / Shaded block characters / Art-group signatures / The login-screen format
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the ACiD-iCE rivalry / art-pack culture / the modern textmode revival