While some prefer to use a simple text editor to produce ASCII art, specialized programs, such as JavE have been developed that often simulate the features and tools in bitmap image editors. For Block ASCII art and ANSI art the artist almost always uses a special text editor, because to generate the required characters on a standard keyboard, one needs to know the Alt code for each character. For example, + will produce ▓, + will produce ▒, and + will produce ◘.
While some prefer to use a simple text editor to produce ASCII art specialized programs such as JavE have been developed that often simulate the features and tools in bitmap image editors For Block ASCII art and ANSI art the artist almost always uses a special text editor because to generate the required characters on a standard keyboard one needs to know the Alt code for each character For example + will produce ▓ + will produce ▒ and + will produce ◘