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ASCII art generator

Type a word — a block-text banner appears as you type, ready to copy.

Up to 200 characters and 8 non-empty lines. Built-in glyphs cover printable ASCII only; other characters appear as a placeholder box.

How to use it

  1. Type in the box. The banner redraws on every keystroke — there is no submit button and no loading state.
  2. Each non-empty line becomes its own banner; blank lines are skipped. Tabs count as one space, and trailing spaces are trimmed from the result.
  3. Pick a style: Solid and Shadow use Unicode block characters, Hash is the only pure 7-bit ASCII style, Outline traces the strokes with box-drawing characters, and Slant shears each row for an italic look.
  4. Copy the banner or download it as ascii-art.txt. Both give exactly the text in the preview.

Example

Input

HELLO

Result (style Solid)

█   █ █████ █     █      ███
█   █ █     █     █     █   █
█   █ █     █     █     █   █
█████ ████  █     █     █   █
█   █ █     █     █     █   █
█   █ █     █     █     █   █
█   █ █████ █████ █████  ███

Deterministic: the same text and style produce the same banner on every device. Changing the style only changes how the same text is drawn. Non-Latin characters (Chinese, Arabic, emoji, accented letters) become a placeholder box and are counted in a notice — the tool never transliterates or silently drops them.

Scope, limits and common questions

  • Built-in glyphs cover printable ASCII (A–Z, a–z, 0–9 and common punctuation). Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, emoji and accented Latin letters are shown as placeholder boxes; nothing is transliterated or stripped.
  • Five styles only — no 279-font FIGlet library, no colors, no borders or comment wrappers. TAAG, asciiart.eu and manytools cover those.
  • Text only: no PNG or SVG export, no image-to-ASCII conversion.
  • Up to 200 characters (grapheme clusters) and 8 non-empty lines. Anything beyond is not drawn, and the tool says so instead of truncating silently.
  • The result needs a monospace font. Pasting into a proportional font (chat boxes, some web pages) will misalign it — that is true of every text-art banner.
  • Outline draws the strokes with box-drawing characters instead of filling them; Shadow grows the banner by one column and one row, and Slant by three columns. These are drawing differences, not extra letters.
  • Input never goes into the URL, localStorage or a request; reloading returns to an empty state, and there is no share link carrying the text.
  • No history, no favourites, no batch mode and no font preview list.

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