Ask HN: Where can ASCII Art be Commissioned?

My company would like some ASCII renditions of their logo: https://rainlab.co.jp/en/.

I have waded through old Geocities sites, random ASCII art collections, and various articles; however, 90 percent of URLs are now defunct, and email addresses all get bounced.

I would absolutely love to get in contact with Joan Stark, but my sleuthing skills are unable to escape beyond early 2000s info.

Do you have any brilliant suggestions?

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ThrowawayR2 3y ago ↗

Have you tried searching for "ASCII art converter"? A casual search shows a bunch of websites or standalone programs that do so, e.g. https://github.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter

xelxebar 3y ago ↗

Yes. Unfortunately, these produce sub-par results in our case.

More than that, however, we would also like to have various differently sized versions, with different levels of detail. The automatic generators are particularly poor with "low resolution" renditions.