Unscii is a set of bitmapped Unicode fonts based on classic system fonts. Unscii attempts to support character cell art well while also being suitable for terminal and programming use.
The two main variants are unscii-8 (8×8 pixels per glyph) and unscii-16 (8×16). There are also several alternative styles for unscii-8, as well as an 8x16 "full" variant that incorporates missing Unicode glyphs from Fixedsys Excelsior and GNU Unifont. "unscii-16-full" falls under GPL because of how Unifont is licensed; the other variants are in the Public Domain.
Unscii was created by Viznut.
UNSCII 2.0
In 2020-03-10, the new Unicode version 13.0 added 214 graphics characters for "legacy computing" (including, among all, the missing PETSCII characters, and a majority of missing Teletext/Videotex characters). Most of these were already included in Unscii 1.x, but now I have been able to give them proper Unicode mappings as well. This is the main reason for the Unscii 2.0 release.
Additionally, Unscii 2.0 fixes errors in some characters, legibility in some others and adds a bunch of new ones.
A test picture representing what is currently available in Unicode (feel free to copy-paste it to your editor to see what it looks like in other fonts):
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EXAMPLES
Here are some conversions of legacy character set art into Unscii.
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