Yle Text, those ever-present legends of the modern teletext art scene, have once again agreed to host our art over the festive period.
It’s time for the great teletext Christmas card exchange of 2026! Working from home in the town of Lapland (with the aid of an Intelfax dongle), Santa Claus will be scrutinising your pixel artworks before distributing them amongst the Finnish people in the best way possible: Yle Teksti-TV.
Aurora Borealis, at this time of year, localised entirely in Lapland? – Geographically confused Supernintendo Chalmers
There was a chance I could be on hiatus for this event, but I think we’re good to go until the last week in November 2026.
Guidelines
TL;DR – send me teletext web editor links to your Christmas art
1. Your entry can be anything seasonal! See some of our previous Advent calendars for inspiration. Your art can be as strongly or vaguely linked to Christmas as you wish.
2. We will accept these formats:
3. You can also enter as many artworks as you like, but bear in mind that they are shown at Yle’s discretion.
4. Be aware that when pages are broadcast on teletext services, the page header (row 0) and fastext labels (row 24) are overwritten, so try not to use them in your art. Here‘s a diagram of where you can find these.
5. Level 1/1.5 Teletext only for this project – Yle does not support Level 2.5 (the one with the extra colours and shapes), however you can use black as a foreground colour (graphics or text) if you like.
6. No copyrighted characters, please!
If you have a question about anything at all, I’ll be happy to help. The hotline is hello [at] teletextart *dot* co _dot_ uk
Deadline: ~23 November 2026
Send your entries to me:
hello [at] teletextart [dot] co [dot] uk
@illarterate on Bluesky or Twitter/X
Teletext Discord – Teletext Art channel
Resources
Carlos has created this handy video to show you how teletext art is made.
Further links
- Past group exhibitions – previous events
- Make teletext art – editors and resources
- Teletext editor links – preset teletext templates
- Teletext editing help – documentation
- Read about teletext Christmas cards at the Knowledge base
- See all posts on this blog tagged Advent calendar
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