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ASCII art

ASCII art builds pictures and large lettering out of ordinary text characters.

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Converting an image works by mapping each block of pixels to a character of matching darkness, such as @ for dark and . for light. It needs a monospaced font to look right. Banner generators draw words in large block letters.

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ASCII Text Banner Generator

Turn any word or short phrase into large block-letter ASCII art, ready to paste into code comments, READMEs, or chat.

Image to ASCII Art Converter

Convert an uploaded image into text-based ASCII art with an adjustable width, then copy the result.

See also

  • Glossary ASCII
    ASCII is a 7-bit character encoding that assigns numbers 0 to 127 to English letters, digits, punctuation and control codes.
  • Cheat sheet ASCII Table Cheat Sheet
    All 95 printable ASCII characters with decimal and hex codes, the control characters you will meet.
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