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What is ASCII art?
ASCII art is a picture made of text characters. Darker areas of the image get characters with more ink (like
@ or #), lighter ones characters with less (like . or :). It
works wherever only text can be shown: in emails, source code, chats or terminals.
What can I do with this tool?
- Image to monochrome ASCII art: a black and white picture of plain text characters.
- Image to color ASCII art: colored characters, as HTML, SVG, ANSI (for terminals), IRC or a TGA image.
- Text to ASCII banner: large letters built from characters, in several fonts.
The width sets the number of characters per line: more characters show more detail, fewer give a smaller result. Text results only look right in a font with fixed character width (monospace).
Which tools do you use?
Monochrome art is made with jp2a, color art with img2txt of libcaca, and banners with FIGlet.