Image to ASCII

Turn an image into ASCII art, in characters or Braille dots, in color or not, to copy as text or save as PNG, HTML or for a terminal, without uploading it

Drop an image here or click to browse You can also paste it. Nothing is uploaded.

ASCII

Settings

Drawn with

Characters Braille dots

Characters, from empty to full

At least two characters.

Width

The rows follow, a character being about twice as tall as wide.

Background

Dark Light

The one the text will be read on: on a dark one, the bright areas get the fullest characters.

Colors

Each character in the color of its spot, in the PNG, the HTML and the ANSI.

Dithering

Each character's rounding passed on to its neighbors (Floyd–Steinberg): more shades from few characters.

Brightness 0

Contrast 0

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