Art
Art
Code used as an artistic material: live coding, glitch, ASCII, pixels, teletext. Collected over years, not assembled this afternoon.
Every row has a note, and the ones marked ▶ open and do their thing in the browser right now — no install, no account.
Nothing matches that.
ASCII
39 linksText as a drawing surface — from figlet banners to diagram editors you'll actually use in a README.
- ASCIIFlow▶ runsasciiflow.comInfinite ASCII diagrams you export as plain text. The one you'll end up pasting into a README.
- ASCII Art Archiveasciiart.euThe big archive: thousands of classic pieces sorted by topic, plus borders and animations.
- Text to ASCII (TAAG)▶ runspatorjk.comThe classic figlet generator. Hundreds of fonts for your CLI banner.
- aem1kaem1k.comJavaScript that draws itself. Code that is both program and image, by Martin Kleppe.
- ASCII Art Generator▶ runsasciiart.clubImage-to-ASCII converter in colour and high density. One of the best-looking results.
- Ascii Art Generator (convertcase)▶ runsconvertcase.netFiglet banner or converted image, on the same page with no friction.
- ASCII Drawing Board▶ runsdelopsu.comA brush made of any character on a sizeable canvas, exportable to .txt.
- ASCII Shader with OGL▶ runstympanus.netCodrops tutorial for an ASCII shader in WebGL. Where ASCII becomes frontend.
- ASCII Theaterascii.theaterText-based movies streamed to your terminal. Absurd and perfect.
- ASCII Today▶ runsascii.todayVery fast title generator, aimed at code comments and readmes.
- ASCII-Generator▶ runsascii-generator.siteAnother image and text converter, with width and character-set controls.
- ascii-image-convertergithub.comCross-platform command-line image-to-ASCII converter. For putting inside a script.
- ASCIImojiasciimoji.comDictionary of ASCII emoticons, searchable by word.
- asciinemaasciinema.orgRecord and share terminal sessions as text, not video. You can copy-paste out of the player.
- Asciivillegithub.comLarge collection of ASCII utilities and animations for the terminal.
- Askyasky.lolASCII art as a service: request it over HTTP and it comes back.
- CASCII▶ runscascii.appASCII diagram builder in vanilla JavaScript, open source and account-free.
- CSS Only ASCII Table Flipcodepen.io(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ animated in pure CSS. A joke with good technique inside.
- deck.gl ASCII▶ runspessimistress.github.iodeck.gl maps rendered in characters. Geographic data in terminal mode.
- Emoji Combosemojicombos.comDatabase of emoji combinations and text art.
- Emoji Wall▶ runskitasenjudesign.comA camera that renders you in emoji in real time. The cheerful Japanese take on the converter.
- fsymbolsfsymbols.comEditor for painting with symbols as if it were Photoshop, plus Unicode type generators.
- Joan Jumpadelfaure.itch.ioA whole game drawn in ASCII by Adel Faure. Proof the medium holds serious work.
- Le Lenny Face Generatorlenny-face-generator.textsmilies.comThe other one. This one also lets you assemble the face part by part.
- Lenny Facelennyfac.es( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) and every variant. Yes, you have two sites for this bookmarked.
- Mitos ASCII Tool▶ runsmitos-pied.vercel.appSmall ASCII conversion tool. No frills.
- MonoSketch▶ runsmonosketch.ioASCII diagram editor with shapes, connectors, and layers. The most comfortable of the modern ones.
- Online Ascii Art Creator▶ runsascii-art-generator.orgConverter with colour or monochrome output and several character densities.
- REXPaintgridsagegames.comThe serious editor, made by the author of Cogmind. If you're drawing ASCII maps, it's this one.
- rot.jsondras.github.ioThe roguelike toolkit for JavaScript: grid, field of view, dungeon generation.
- Text Art Generatortextartgenerator.netDecorated text generator for copy-paste.
- Text Editortexteditor.comSame idea as the previous one, with block fonts and text faces. Same author, another door.
- Text facestextfac.esThe catalogue of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and friends, one-click copy.
- Text Fancytextfancy.comText converters to Unicode variants: bold, italic, bubbles, strikethrough.
- TEXT-IMAGE▶ runstext-image.comClassic image-to-ASCII converter, output as text or HTML.
- textart.shtextart.shSearchable text art by topic. Type “cat” and get forty.
- TextPaint▶ runstextpaint.netA text canvas for drawing in ASCII and Unicode, with real painting tools.
- video-to-asciigithub.comPlays video in the terminal using characters as pixels. A Python package.
- Wiretext▶ runswiretext.appWireframes where everything renders as box-drawing characters. Layout in terminal mode.