Conversion settings

Source

Make art from

Drop a logo here or click to browse - PNG, SVG, JPG, GIF, WebP. You can also paste from the clipboard, or drop several files at once.

Current image: sample-logo

Or paste an image address

Color

Color mode

Full color, 256, 16, Grayscale, Custom palette and Duotone take each character's color from the image. The others draw every character in a single color - One color uses the Text color below.

Text

Background

Transparent

Preset

Use case

A preset overwrites size, detail, character set and color. Everything stays editable afterwards.

Character grid

Detail - characters across

120 characters across

Character size

8 px per character

120 x 120 chars -> 960 x 960 px

Fit to

The two shape options let the grid decide the pixels. Pick a pixel size (in px) instead and the canvas is fixed at that size, which derives the character size for you.

Look

Character set

Which tones become characters

Edge characters (keeps logo outlines crisp) Outline only - drop the shading

Edge sensitivity

0.16 - default 0.16

Dither (Floyd-Steinberg) Trim empty margins

Typography

Font

The font decides how wide a character is, so it changes the shape of the grid as much as the detail slider does.

Line height

1.00 - default 1.00

Letter spacing

0.00 em - default 0.00

Transform

Rotate

Flip horizontally Flip vertically

Crop as a percentage off each edge, applied before conversion - or drag a box on the image.

Left %

Top %

Right %

Bottom %

Tone

Brightness

0.00 - neutral 0.00

Contrast

0.00 - neutral 0.00

Gamma

1.00 - neutral 1.00

Sharpen

0.00 - off at 0.00. Crisper detail in photos.

Local contrast

0.00 - off at 0.00. Lifts flat, gray photos.

ASCII preview

Every text export (.txt, .md, .html, .ansi, .sh, .svg) is trimmed tight to the artwork, so it carries no blank margin. The .png is the only export that keeps the full output size, blank margin included. The .ansi and .sh carry the background color unless Transparent is on; .sh is a script that prints the banner in a terminal. Copy link shares your settings, never the image.

Show the original image beside the result

Your ASCII art will appear here.

Keyboard shortcuts

?: Open or close this list
o: Open an image
c: Copy the ASCII text
t: Download .txt
m: Download .md
s: Download .svg
p: Download .png
z: Toggle 1:1 zoom
r: Reset to defaults
[ and ]: Less or more detail
Ctrl+Z: Undo the last setting change
Ctrl+Y: Redo (or Ctrl+Shift+Z)

Shortcuts are ignored while you are typing in a field.