How to make ASCII art text
- Type a word or short phrase, up to 40 characters.
- Choose a font style and the characters to draw with: hashes, solid blocks, at-signs, stars, a shaded ramp that uses different characters for lighter and darker parts, or your own character.
- Use the height slider to make the banner bigger or smaller.
- Copy the banner as it is, or as a code comment ready to paste at the top of a source file.
Where to use ASCII banners
Big text made from ordinary characters has been a programmer tradition since the days of line printers. It still works anywhere fixed-width text is shown: README files on GitHub (inside a code block), command-line tool start-up messages, server message-of-the-day banners, source file headers, log separators, Discord and Slack code blocks, email signatures in plain text and retro-styled websites.
This generator draws your text with a real font on a hidden canvas and converts it to characters, so any letter, number or symbol your device can display works, including accented letters. For best results paste the banner where a monospaced font is used, such as inside triple backticks in Markdown; in proportional fonts the letters will look skewed.
The banner is generated in your browser and nothing is uploaded.
Why does my banner look broken when I paste it?
It needs a monospaced font. In Markdown, Discord or Slack, wrap it in a code block with three backticks before and after.
Can I make the banner narrower?
Lower the height slider or use fewer letters. Terminals are usually 80 columns wide.
Is this the same as FIGlet?
It produces similar banners, but instead of fixed FIGlet fonts it renders any font and converts it to characters.