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Given the issue of pre-formatting ASCII art which I intended to use on my site's navbar, I searched for "font emulating ASCII art" and stumbled upon this great article written by @adelfaure for @velvetyne , titled "About ASCII art and Jgs font":

https://velvetyne.fr/news/about-ascii-art-and-jgs-font/

Both the article content I quickly glanced at, and the look and feel of Velvetyne's site, made me abandon my search and detour immediately into reading the whole article. And I loved it!

I've been a long time fan of what I now learned may be more precisely referred to as "Textmode Art" -- ever since my childhood encounters with various bulletin board software which would always be tagged by amazing ASCII and ANSI art and positively bangin' electronic beats!

Not only does the article have an engaging overview of the history of textmode art and what it is, but it also links to some prolific communities like Sixteen Colors ( https://16colo.rs/ ) -- whereupon I found this amazing ANSI art piece attached featured.

*Attached image source:* https://16colo.rs/pack/blocktronics_darker_image_2/WZ%20-%20Nite%20Crusaders.ans