Update (): Most of the site above are dead, and so I updated links to point to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. If you manage to do something really cool like this, let me know. The site that actually directed me there was another blog - Øyvind Østlund ran an article about this little program that I believe he had written that converts an image to such ACSII art (Read the full article at Another very cool picture was posted on an Italian blog at If I didn’t know better, I might think it was actually a JPEG image. Check it out at It’s pretty big so you might have to scroll back an forth to get the full effect. The coolest one I’ve seen was the Linux penguin, created using a combination of these two techniques. However, modern computer also allow you to use colour as you create this ASCII creations. ASCII is a character encoding standard for electronic.
This make it so easy for you to chose the best suit text art ascii banner for your usage. You can also test all font to check all the ASCII art generator. Update 2: The generated ASCII text container now has full width. (I found some cool examples at With modern computers, this is more or less a lost art, as now, it’s so easy to open up a graphics editor, and get something that looks exactly like what you are trying to recreate. Update 1: Now you can copy the generated ASCII with just one click. I, unfortunately, am not that skilled to produce an example, but these are the ones that I’ve always thought are really cool. These decorations can go even a step further, using the relative amounts of white space in the characters to form the image my shading, like you would in a black and white image.
