What is ASCII art?

ASCII art composes pictures out of printable text characters, originally because early terminals and printers could output nothing else.

3 tools that work with ASCII art

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Text Tools2

ASCII Art Text GeneratorTurn words into large ASCII banner text for terminals, READMEs and code comments.ASCII Table FormatterTurn CSV or tab-separated text into an aligned plain-text, Markdown or box-drawing table.

Image Tools1

Image to ASCII Art ConverterTurn any picture into ASCII art with adjustable width and character sets.

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