The archive
The ASCII things I've come across, more or less in order. Each with a line on what it is and, if the workshop has something similar, the link.
- Converting images and video 7
- Big letters and text 6
- Drawing editors 8
- Motion and shaders 6
- Games 2
- Faces and emoji 5
- Collections 3
- In the terminal 3
Converting images and video
- ASCII Art Clubasciiart.club
Turns images into colour ASCII right in the browser, and saves them to share.
In the workshop: Convert → - Text-Imagetext-image.com
A 2000s classic: upload a photo and get it back as ASCII, colour HTML or matrix style.
In the workshop: Convert → - ASCII Generatorascii-generator.site
Image-to-ASCII generator with width, character and colour settings.
In the workshop: Convert → - ASCII Art Generator (.org)ascii-art-generator.org
Turns photos and logos into ASCII, black and white or colour, exported as text or HTML.
In the workshop: Convert → - Mitos ASCII Toolmitos-pied.vercel.app
A tool to animate ASCII from images and video, and export it as a video.
In the workshop: Animate → - ascii-image-convertergithub.com/TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter
A terminal program (in Go) that turns images and GIFs into ASCII or braille, with colour.
In the workshop: Convert → - video-to-asciigithub.com/joelibaceta/video-to-ascii
Plays videos in the terminal made of characters, in Python.
In the workshop: Convert →
Big letters and text
- TAAG (patorjk)patorjk.com
Text to ASCII Art Generator: the go-to for big letters, with hundreds of FIGlet fonts.
In the workshop: Letters → - ASCII Todayascii.today
ASCII titles to liven up code comments and READMEs. By Lokesh Dhakar.
In the workshop: Letters → - Convert Case · ASCII Artconvertcase.net
A big-letter generator inside a Swiss army knife of text tools.
In the workshop: Letters → - TextArtGeneratortextartgenerator.net
Artistic text lettering and ASCII drawings ready to copy.
In the workshop: Letters → - TextFancytextfancy.com
Fancy Unicode letters (script, gothic, strikethrough) for social media, plus some text art.
- TextEditortexteditor.com
Styled text generators and Unicode symbols, to copy and paste.
Drawing editors
- REXPaintgridsagegames.com
The serious ASCII art editor: layers, colours, palettes. Made by Cogmind's author for his roguelikes.
In the workshop: Draw → - ASCIIFlowasciiflow.com
Box-and-arrow diagrams in ASCII, in the browser. Perfect for documentation.
In the workshop: Draw → - Monosketchmonosketch.io
A monospace text diagram editor with shapes, lines and stroke styles. Open source.
In the workshop: Draw → - Casciicascii.app
A free, open-source ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript.
In the workshop: Draw → - Wiretextwiretext.app
Interface wireframes drawn with Unicode characters, exportable to text or Markdown.
In the workshop: Draw → - TextPainttextpaint.net
A Paint for text: brushes, colours and characters on a grid.
In the workshop: Draw → - Delopsu Drawdelopsu.com
A board to draw with ASCII and Unicode: brushes in several sizes, eraser and TXT export.
In the workshop: Draw → - fsymbols · Drawfsymbols.com
Draw freehand and it becomes braille text art, ready to paste on social media.
In the workshop: Draw →
Motion and shaders
- ASCII shader (Codrops)tympanus.net
A Codrops tutorial: a WebGL (OGL) 3D scene rendered as ASCII with a shader.
In the workshop: Convert → - ASCII video (deck.gl)pessimistress.github.io
Xiaoji Chen's deck.gl example that draws live video as characters on the GPU.
In the workshop: Convert → - Emoji Wall (Kitasenju)kitasenjudesign.com
A piece by Japanese studio Kitasenju Design: your webcam turned into a wall of emoji.
In the workshop: Convert → - aem1kaem1k.com
Martin Kleppe: code that draws with its own text, 1 KB games and impossible JavaScript.
- ascii.restascii.rest
Over 230 ASCII animations (scenes, loaders, logos, 3D) to embed on a site or play in a terminal.
In the workshop: Animate → - CodePen · takaneichinosecodepen.io
A CodePen pen with an animation made of characters.
Games
- Joan Jumpadelfaure.itch.io
An ASCII platformer by Adel Faure, one of the loveliest text artists working today.
In the workshop: Game → - rot.jsondras.github.io
A JavaScript library for roguelikes: maps, field of view, pathfinding and a character display.
In the workshop: Game →
Faces and emoji
- Lenny Face Generatorlenny-face-generator.textsmilies.com
Build your lenny face by picking ears, eyes and mouth.
In the workshop: Faces → - Lenny Faceslennyfac.es
A collection of lenny faces ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) to copy.
In the workshop: Faces → - textfac.estextfac.es
One page of the best-known text faces; one click and it's copied.
In the workshop: Faces → - ASCIImojiasciimoji.com
Named ASCII emoticons to type quickly, also as an extension and a library.
In the workshop: Faces → - Emoji Combosemojicombos.com
Emoji combinations and text art made with emoji and braille, by theme.
In the workshop: Faces →
Collections
- ASCII Art Archiveasciiart.eu
The big archive of classic ASCII art, by theme, with the artists' signatures. Plus tools.
- textart.shtextart.sh
Copy-ready text art sorted into hundreds of themes: animals, food, objects…
- Askyasky.lol
“ASCII Art as a Service”: ASCII art served from a site, half joke, half useful.
In the terminal
- asciinemaasciinema.org
Record your terminal and share it as text, not video: you can copy from the recording.
- ASCII Theaterascii.theater
By MSCHF: copy an ssh command, paste it into your terminal and watch today's film in ASCII.
- Asciivillegithub.com/doctorfree/Asciiville
A whole neighbourhood in the terminal: ASCII art, animations, maps, chat, mail and text-mode games.