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Linux Candy: shuffle – ASCII art with a cool shuffle effect

November 10, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Utilities

The shuffle command prints an ASCII art picture with a cool shuffle effect.

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Art

ASCII Draw lets you sketch anything using characters

May 21, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ASCII Draw is an app to draw diagrams or anything using only ASCII.

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Art

img2ascii – command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

img2ascii is a command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art.

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Art

Diagon – transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation

October 3, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Diagon is an interactive interpreter. It transforms markdown-style expression into an ascii-art representation.

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Vector illustration of a hand holding a bonsai tree

Linux Candy: PyBonsai – generates procedural ASCII art trees

October 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews

PyBonsai is a Python script that generates procedural ASCII art trees in the comfort of your terminal.

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Art

Artem – convert images to ASCII art

September 30, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

Artem is a small cli program to easily convert images to ascii art, named after the Latin word for art.

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Art

Letterpress – create attractive ASCII art

August 14, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Letterpress converts your images into a picture made up of ASCII characters. Save the output to a file, copy it, and change its resolution.

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Calligraphy – turn text into ASCII banners

August 12, 2024 Steve Emms Reviews, Utilities

Calligraphy is a small utility which converts short texts into large, imposing banners made up of ASCII characters.

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Linux Candy: ASCII Art Converter

April 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews, Utilities

ASCII Art Converter converts images into ASCII art. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

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Art

gif-for-cli – convert media to animated ASCII art

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

gif-for-cli is a utility that converts gifs and mp4 files to animated ASCII art. The utility supports querying the Tenor GIF API.

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boxes – Command line ASCII boxes unlimited

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. Box design choices range from simple boxes to complex ASCII art.

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Art

FIGlet – generate text banners in different typefaces

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

FIGlet is a program for making large letters out of ordinary screen characters. FIGlet stands for ‘Frank, Ian and Glenn’s LETters’.

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Art

jp2a – convert jpg images to ASCII

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

jp2a is a small utility that converts JPEG images to ASCII with given dimensions. You can specify a mixture of files and URLs.

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Art

TOIlet – “The Other Implementation’s letters”

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

TOIlet is a small console-based tool that prints text using large characters made of smaller characters.

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Art

textdraw – draw geometric figures with ASCII art

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

textdraw is an easy to use application which you can use to draw geometric figures and text as ASCII Art and move them around.

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Art

cadubi – Creative ASCII Drawing Utility

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

cadubi is an application written in Perl that allows you to draw text-based images that are viewable on typical Unix-based consoles.

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Art

cowsay – configurable talking cow

October 16, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

cowsay is a configurable program which generates ASCII pictures of a cow with a message in a speech bubble. cowsay is written in Perl.

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Art

AEWAN – Ascii-art Editor Without a Name

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Aewan is a multi-layered ascii-art/animation editor that produces both stand-alone cat-able art files and an easy-to-parse format.

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Linux Candy

Linux Candy: Boxes – command line ASCII boxes

July 24, 2020 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, Utilities

Boxes is a text filter which can draw ASCII art boxes around its input text. It can spice up news posting, emails, documenting files, and much more.

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Linux Candy: lolcat – rainbows and unicorns

November 4, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, Utilities

lolcat applies rainbow colors to text output in the terminal. It works in a similar way to the venerable cat command but jazzes things up.

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