I’m glad you like the cards. I do them using Adobe Illustrator. Each letter is sized, rotated, and placed individually. It is not something that is automated like, e.g., picascii.com/
It’s not boring, or at least I don’t think it is. Each time you place a glyph, you have new decisions to make, and create a new context within which future decisions will be made. In some ways, it’s more like sculpting than like drawing.
For folks who don’t know what’s being referenced, you can find examples here.
By the way, Adobe allows downloads of an older–but still quite functional–version of its Creative Suite 2, including Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. You can find Illustrator here: techspot.com/downloads/5724- … -free.html
Illustrator is not as easy to learn as Photoshop, so you might want to google around for tutorial series, etc.