🔣 Image to ASCII Art

Transform any image into ASCII art — right in your browser

✓ Free Forever · ✓ No Signup · ✓ No Upload · ✓ Works Offline

🔒 Your image never leaves your device. All processing happens locally in your browser using Canvas API pixel analysis. No upload, no server, no tracking.

Features

  • Adjustable Width — Set the output width from narrow to wide — the aspect ratio is preserved automatically.
  • Color Mode — Colour each character with the pixel underneath it, or keep classic green-on-black. The colours come along in Download .html and Download as Image; Copy and .txt are plain text.
  • Two Character Sets — Choose Standard (10 characters) for clean output or Detailed (70 characters) for finer gradients.
  • Download as Image — Export your ASCII art as a PNG image — perfect for sharing on social media.

How It Works

  1. Upload an image — Drop or select a PNG, JPG, or WebP image.
  2. Adjust settings — Set width, choose a character set, toggle color mode or invert.
  3. Copy or download — Copy the text, download it as .txt or .html, or export a PNG image.

Use Cases

  • Create eye-catching ASCII art for social media posts
  • Add a unique developer signature to your terminal or README
  • Generate retro pixel-style art from modern photos
  • Make fun text-based profile pictures and avatars

Frequently Asked Questions

What images work best?

High-contrast images with clear subjects work best. Portraits, logos, and silhouettes produce the most recognizable ASCII art.

What does color mode do?

Each character takes the colour of its pixel, on the black background. Copy and .txt can only carry plain text, so to keep the colours use Download .html (a page you can open or paste into a site) or Download as Image. The characters themselves are picked by brightness either way.

How many characters wide should I set it?

80-120 characters works well for most images. Wider values (150+) capture more detail but need a larger screen or smaller font to display properly.

Notes from Milo 🐨

2026-10-03

I dropped a black logo with a transparent background in here and got nothing: a blank black box, and Invert turned it into a solid block. The see-through part was being read as black, the same as the logo. Now transparent areas are always empty space and the logo is drawn in characters, light or dark. Colour mode keeps its colours in a new Download .html, very dark colours are lifted so they don't vanish on the black, a really tall image stops at 400 rows instead of freezing the tab, and the files are named after your picture.

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