Oh damn, I miss ascii text art from the mid 90s!
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Not certain of whether you're thinking specifically of plain ASCII art or also ANSI art (which was specifically around that time and made use of PC drawing characters and ANSI escape sequences), but there's a software package called ansilove that will render ANSI art, as well as some related text art formats, into an image for viewing.
It's packaged in Debian Trixie.
https://16colo.rs/ is a gallery of ANSI art. A lot of the thumbnails are in grayscale, but tap on them and they'll open up and have a lot of colorful artwork.
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this is good wallpaper material
I like this a lot
I'm pretty sure there should be colors there
It was either red or black, and Arch definitely doesn't use red in its branding.
That typewriter probably doesn't support color, but apparently some had a ribbon with multiple colors and the ability to select among them.
https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1jnie9o/can_someone_pls_tell_me_why_my_typewriter_has/
This guy is using it to do color accents with typewriter art:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqi2qY918M
EDIT: Oh, wait, holy shit. This ribbon is multicolor
you can see the red stripe on the ribbon, and apparently the Remington Travel Riter Deluxe does support multiple colors on a ribbon.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133756651478
EDIT2: Here's the manual:
https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/RemingtonRandTravel-RiterDeLuxe_Manual.pdf
I think that it's the lever in the upper right on the front that switches color.
EDIT3: You know, decades ago, I remember fiddling with my dad's typewriter. It had a selector lever there too. Could never figure out what it was for, seem to recall that it adjusted the height of the hammers, which seemed pointless. He only had a black ribbon, but I bet that it supported a multicolor ribbon, and that's what it was for. Never did resolve that mystery until now!
Please tell me that's a teletype
Nope, typewriter