Comment by ☕️ mozz
Re: "anyone know some good software for drawing ANSI art? I've…"
When you look into ANSI art you will find that a lot of the software is geared towards making art for a specific retro font/charset to display on BBS servers like Commodore or Amiga. This is different from ASCII Art editors like JavE that make plaintext that can be copy-pasted anywhere.
Here are some names that you can search for:
- Playscii
- Rexpaint
- Petmate
- Moebius (and the fork MoebiusXBIN)
- Durdraw (a TUI, but a good option for unicode ANSI)
- lvllvl (a web editor, but this is the best one)
Check out this page too which is a good primer:
https://polyducks.co.uk/pages/what-is-textmode/
2025-12-01 · 5 months ago
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☕️ mozz [mod] · Dec 01 at 03:30:
If you're using JavE (which is an incredible piece of software!) make sure you grab v6.0RC2 which is the last version to be released and is a significant improvement over v5.
http://www.jave.de/developer/index.html
🐰 99thplace [OP] · Dec 01 at 07:07:
OH HI MOZZ THANK YOU!! i've been using durdraw recently and it's been great! just had some trouble pasting the output into gemtext, still trying to figure out how to fix that...
Original Post
anyone know some good software for drawing ANSI art? I've been meaning to get into it, it seems so very interesting. — on another note, I recently came across this very nice, lightweight (1.5MB with all fonts installed) ASCII art program written in Java called "JavE" that redefines the traditional text-editor interface in favor of something more mouse-focused, acting more like any other "regular" art program. I haven't made anything with it yet, but it's been super fun to play around with. It...