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Letterpress – create attractive ASCII art

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

MapSCII is a Node.js based Vector Tile to Braille and ASCII renderer for xterm-compatible terminals. It’s billed as the whole world in your console.