ASCII Art Generator

Create ASCII Art in 4 Different Ways

This versatile ASCII art generator offers four distinct modes to create text-based art:

Text to ASCII

Convert any text into large ASCII banners using 5 different font styles. Perfect for creating headers in code comments, README files, or terminal splash screens. Choose from Standard (classic FIGlet), Banner (tall block letters), Block (simple @ patterns), Digital (LCD-style), or Mini (compact) fonts.

Image to ASCII

Upload any image and convert it to ASCII art. The converter analyzes brightness values and maps them to characters—darker areas become dense characters like @ and #, while lighter areas use dots and spaces. Adjust width, character density, and invert colors for optimal results.

Shape Generator

Create geometric ASCII shapes including hearts, stars, diamonds, triangles, circles, boxes, arrows, trees, and waves. Customize size, fill character, and special options like box border style or arrow direction.

Art Library

Browse 60+ pre-made ASCII art pieces across 6 categories: animals, faces & emotions, symbols, objects, borders & frames, and decorative elements. One-click copy makes it easy to use these classic designs in your projects.

Understanding ASCII Art

ASCII art transforms plain text characters into visual images and designs. This technique dates back to the 1960s when early computer systems lacked graphical capabilities, forcing creative users to represent images using only the 95 printable ASCII characters.

Common Uses for ASCII Art

• Code Comments: Developers add ASCII art banners to mark major sections in source code
• Terminal Output: CLI tools and games display logos and graphics using text characters
• Email Signatures: Text-based signatures work across all email clients
• Social Media: ASCII art stands out in text-only platforms and comments
• Documentation: README files often feature ASCII diagrams and logos

Tips for Better Results

1. High contrast images convert better than low-contrast photos
2. Simple subjects (faces, logos, silhouettes) work best
3. Adjust width based on where you will display the art - terminals typically show 80 characters
4. Invert colors if your original image is light-on-dark

Creative Uses for ASCII Art

ASCII art remains relevant in modern development and design. Here are practical applications.

README Files and Documentation

Make your GitHub projects stand out:

  ___  ___  ___     _____  ___  ___  ___
 |   ||   ||   |   |     ||   ||   ||   |
 | | || | || | |   | | | || | || | || | |
 |_|_||_|_||_|_|   |_|_|_||_|_||_|_||_|_|
 My Awesome Project v2.0

Terminal Welcome Messages

Greet users when they SSH into servers or open terminal applications.

Code Comments

Mark important sections in your codebase:

/*
 * ╔═══════════════════════════════════════╗
 * ║  AUTHENTICATION MIDDLEWARE             ║
 * ║  DO NOT MODIFY WITHOUT REVIEW          ║
 * ╚═══════════════════════════════════════╝
 */

Email Signatures and Chat

Add personality to plain-text communications where images aren't supported.

Retro Gaming and Demos

Create nostalgic visual effects for games, demos, or artistic projects.

Badge Generation

Create text-based badges for CLI tools and terminal dashboards that work everywhere.

The generator includes 200+ FIGlet fonts organized into five style categories. Each font renders text in a distinct visual style, from classic banner-style block letters to elaborate 3D, decorative, and gothic typefaces.

Classic (15 fonts)

Standard, Banner, Big, Block, Bubble, Digital, Ivrit, Lean, Mini, Script, Shadow, Slant, Small, Speed, Star Wars.

3D & Effect (7 fonts)

3-D, 3D Diagonal, 3D-ASCII, Isometric1, Isometric2, Isometric3, Isometric4.

Decorative (38 fonts)

Alligator, Alligator2, Alpha, Alphabet, Avatar, Banner3-D, Banner4, Basic, Bear, Bell, Benjamin, Bigfig, Binary, Bloody, Bolger, Bright, Broadway, Broadway KB, Bulbhead, Caligraphy, Caligraphy2, Calvins, Catwalk, Chiseled, Chunky, Coinstak, Colossal, Computer, Contessa, Contrast, Cosmike, Crawford, Crawford2, Crazy, Cricket, Cursive, Cyberlarge, Cybermedium, Cybersmall.

Gothic & Fantasy (32 fonts)

Dancing Font, Decimal, Def Leppard, Delta Corps Priest 1, Diamond, Diet Cola, Doom, Dot Matrix, Double, Double Shorts, Dr Pepper, Efti Chess, Efti Font, Efti Italic, Efti Piti, Efti Robot, Efti Wall, Efti Water, Electronic, Elite, Epic, Fender, Filter, Fire Font-k, Fire Font-s, Flipped, Flower Power, Four Tops, Fraktur, Fun Face, Fun Faces, Fuzzy.

Modern (138 fonts)

Georgi16, Georgia11, Ghost, Ghoulish, Glenyn, Goofy, Gothic, Graceful, Gradient, Graffiti, Greek, Heart Left, Heart Right, Henry 3D, Hex, Hieroglyphs, Hollywood, Horizontal Left, Horizontal Right, ICL-1900, Impossible, Invita, Jacky, Jazmine, Jerusalem, JS Block Letters, JS Bracket Letters, JS Capital Curves, JS Cursive, JS Stick Letters, Katakana, Kban, Keyboard, Knob, Konto, Konto Slant, Larry 3D, Larry 3D 2, LCD, Lean, Letters, Line Blocks, Linux, Lockergnome, Madrid, Marquee, Maxfour, Merlin1, Merlin2, Mike, Mirror, Mnemonic, Modular, Morse, Morse2, Moscow, Mshebrew210, Muzzle, Nancyj, Nancyj-Fancy, Nancyj-Improved, Nancyj-Underlined, Nipples, NScript, NT Greek, NV Script, O8, Octal, Ogre, Old Banner, OS2, Patorjk's Cheese, Patorjk-HeX, Pawp, Peaks, Peaks Slant, Pebbles, Pepper, Poison, Puffy, Puzzle, Pyramid, Rammstein, Rectangles, Red Phoenix, Relief, Relief2, Reverse, Roman, Rot13, Rotated, Rounded, Rowan Cap, Rozzo, Runic, Runyc, S Blood, Santa Clara, Script, Serifcap, Short, SL Script, Slant Relief, Slide, Small, Small Caps, Small Isometric1, Small Keyboard, Small Poison, Small Script, Small Shadow, Small Slant, Small Tengwar, Soft, Speed, Spliff, Stacey, Stampate, Stampatello, Standard, Star Strips, Star Wars, Stellar, Stforek, Stick Letters, Stop, Straight, Stronger Than All, Sub-Zero, Swamp Land, Swan, Sweet, Tanja, Tengwar, Term, Test1, The Edge, Thick, Thin, THIS, Thorned, Three Point, Ticks, Ticks Slant, Tiles, Tinker-Toy, Tombstone, Train, Trek, Tsalagi, Tubular, Twisted, Two Point, Univers, USA Flag, Varsity, Wavy, Weird, Wet Letter, Whimsy, Wow.

In addition to FIGlet, the generator includes 5 hand-crafted custom fonts (Standard, Banner, Block, Digital, Mini) optimized for short headers, plus an image-to-ASCII converter with edge detection and dithering, a shape generator, and a library of 60+ pre-made ASCII art designs.

Converting an image to ASCII art (sometimes called an ASCII image generator or image-to-ASCII converter) replaces blocks of pixels with text characters chosen by brightness. This tool does it entirely in your browser — your image is never uploaded.

Step by step

1. Open the Image to ASCII tab and add a picture by drag-and-drop, clicking to browse, or pasting from the clipboard (Ctrl+V). JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP, and SVG are supported.
2. Set the width (30–200 characters). Higher width captures more detail but produces wider output — 80–120 is a good starting point for most photos and logos.
3. Pick a character ramp. Detailed (@%#*+=-:.) gives smooth gradients; Blocks (█▓▒░) looks dense and poster-like; Simple, Numbers, Binary, and Braille offer alternative textures. You can also supply a custom ramp, ordered dark→light.
4. Tune the image. Adjust brightness and contrast, toggle Invert (handy for light subjects on dark backgrounds or for terminals with dark themes), enable edge detection to trace outlines, or apply Floyd-Steinberg / ordered (Bayer) dithering to fake extra tonal depth.
5. Add color (optional). Turn on Color output to keep each character's original color. Export it as standalone color HTML, or copy as ANSI for a truecolor string that renders in a terminal.

Choosing an output preset

Use the Terminal, Banner, or Logo presets in the output panel to restyle the result and set the PNG export theme — green-on-black for terminal art, large light-on-dark for banners, or a compact dark-on-light card for READMEs and docs.

Exporting and sharing

Copy the result, or download it as .txt, .png, color HTML, or terminal ANSI. For text-mode art, the page also writes your text, font, and preset into a shareable permalink URL that reproduces the same output when opened.