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ASCII art for your next project

Build a GitHub README, turn words into a banner or find text art to copy. Free tools, right in your browser.

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Text banners

Create compact text banners for profiles, terminals and READMEs.

Guides

Guides and tutorials

Practical guides to get clean, shareable ASCII art.

Why everything runs in your browser

ASCIIForge has no upload step and no processing server. Your image is read by the page itself through the Canvas API, converted, and shown back to you. That has three consequences worth knowing: your files never leave your device, conversion is effectively instant because there is no network round trip, and the tools stay free because serving static files costs almost nothing.

What people make here

README headers

Project banners and section dividers that render correctly inside a fenced code block on GitHub and GitLab.

Discord and chat art

Narrow banners and reaction art sized so they survive a phone screen without wrapping.

Terminal splash screens

MOTD banners and CLI startup art, exported with ANSI colour codes when you want them.

Text versions of images

Logos, icons and photos turned into characters, with a Braille mode when you need more effective resolution.

Before you start

Is it really free?

Yes. No account or watermark. Images can be up to 10 MB; animated GIFs also have frame and memory limits to keep your browser responsive.

Do I need to install anything?

No. Both tools run in any modern browser on desktop and mobile. There is no extension and no download.

Will my photos be stored?

No. Conversion happens locally in the page. Nothing is uploaded, so there is nothing for us to keep.