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Online ASCII Art Generators

Ever since the early 90's and the start of the end of Bulletin Board Systems ASCII Art has become neglected unlike Pixel Art that is still doing fine. Coding, Demo scene have kept the tradition and continue to use ASCII codes extensively. One of best examples is cosmblop 4k demo. More about what is ASCII and for what it is used, and it is used ALL the time, can be found on Wiki.

The basic form of ASCII art is creating big letters out of special characters. There is a online ASCII Generator that does this function rather well. Also, there is ASCII Text Signature Generator,

A step from using ASCII just for creating large letters we can use them to create pictures. This started almost with the dawn of computers as they had no Graphic User Interface. When something graphic had to be shown it was done using combination of special characters from the ASCII set. They are still used today and the most famous is the smiley. Smiley is the most used ASCII art. :)
There are allot of archives online that organize and host tutorials on how to create ASCII art. Some of them are Chris.com and Ascii Art Dictionary. ASCII Art Dictionary also hosts tutorials on how to create animated ASCII graphics. ASCII Art doesn't has to be black and white. Wikipedia has surprisingly detailed entry about all kind of ASCII art.
One Web 2.0 application that can be found online is asciiomatic. Site also generates HTML code for your websites but can only take 60x50px image. This shouldn't be a problem as ASCII Art is not about detail.


Some other image2text conversation tools online that are wort checking are TextImage and ASCIImator. ASCIImator can also animate your ASCII Art, but it requires some work.

For more examples of ASCII Art go to Google ASCII Art Search

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