This free online ASCII art generator converts images to color or monochrome ASCII art, and text to ASCII banners. For color ASCII art you can choose from several output formats, including HTML and SVG.

Convert Image to monochrome ASCII art Image to color ASCII art Text to ASCII banner

Output format

Width Characters per line, 40 to 800. Use 80 for email or terminal. Improve the contrast automatically Stretches the brightness range of dull photos, so the art shows more detail.

Only outlines (line art) Draws only the edges of the image with lines like / | \ =, on an empty background. Suits logos, comics and drawings. For a dark background (e.g. a terminal) Bright areas of the image get dense characters. Without it, dark areas do (for white pages, documents, emails).

Banner text Font Max. line width Line breaks keep the banner within this number of characters. Leave empty for no line breaks.

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