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ASCII Art Generator

Your text as a scene banner: 51 classic FIGlet faces, CP437 block letters, and ten TheDraw fonts restored in-house, colors baked in, with a true .ans file at the end, the way the BBS era shipped it.

Image effects Styled text
> ascii(" ", standard) 
   
 

Pick a style: every row is your text in that face, live. Tap one to load it.

 
 
 ANSI color 
 Bright green 
 

Style: Standard · The classic FIGlet banner face 
  
    .ans = CP437 bytes + ANSI color, loads in any ANSI viewer 
 
 
 
  
 
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  Text effects: picture text 
Chrome, gold, neon and fire as a PNG picture, flat or curved.
 Open >  Fancy text: styled text 
Bold, script, fraktur and more as Unicode characters you can paste anywhere.
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Browse the font archive behind these styles
 

Every style above comes out of a cataloged collection, and the
      collection is bigger than the picker: 313 FIGlet designs with
      their authors and coverage measured, the 34 TheDraw fonts
      recovered from the BBS art packs, and the 4,019 packs they
      traveled in. The reference wing keeps them as an archive, with
      a specimen and provenance page per design.

 
  ASCII Fonts: the archive 
The hub: three collections, featured designs, and the story of text-mode type.
 Open >   FIGlet Fonts 
All 313 cataloged designs, filterable by coverage, author and generator styles.
 Open >   TheDraw Fonts 
The 34 .TDF designs from the art packs, ten of them restored as TrueType fonts.
 Open >  
 
 
 
Why a .ans file?
 

On a BBS, a banner was not a picture. It was a text file full of CP437 block
      characters and ANSI color codes, drawn live by the terminal at 80 columns.
      Every other ASCII generator hands you plain text or a picture of text. This
      one hands you the real file: the blocks encoded as CP437 bytes, the color as
      ANSI escapes, ready for an ANSI viewer, a scene pack, or a Discord code
      block. Pick a TheDraw style and the .ans carries the font's own color on
      every single cell, exactly as TheDraw saved it in 1993.