Turn a photo into ASCII art made of characters, in black and white or in colour, and copy it or download it.
Want a picture made of big pixels instead? Try Pixel art maker.
A picture made of letters and symbols: darker parts use dense characters like @ and #, lighter parts use dots and spaces. It works anywhere text works, such as code comments, chats and old-school terminals.
Photos with a clear subject and strong contrast work best. Try more characters across for detail, raise the contrast, or switch to “Invert” for light text on a dark background.
Yes. Choose “In colour” and download a PNG picture, where each character keeps the colour of that part of the photo. Text copies are always plain characters.
No. The photo is turned into characters in your browser.
