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Collection of useful text art tools [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2026-07-16  

Heikki Lotvonen's Text Art Tools is a collection of websites and apps that make it easier to make what once was known as ASCII art but is now a vast and sprawling universe of options. I found out about PabloDraw, "The best RIPScrip editor," Telepaint, a "Teletext paint and animation program," and Textual Paint, "a textmode version of MS Paint that runs in the terminal," among many other creative curiosities. Monodraw is a modern MacOS app that makes it easy to get started; Moebius is cross-platform; on the web try ASCIIflow. Make a face with the ASCII face maker! It's not all oldschool, either: see Glyphtern, for example. [via]

More from Heikki on Instagram and at their homepage: "I think its crazy that my University (Aalto) pays over a million euros in licencing fees to Adobe every year while the design teachers are chronically overworked and understaffed. My ultimate goal is to persuade the institution to ditch Adobe and switch to FOSS tools, and hire more staff & teachers."

Previously:

• Unscii: a new unicode font set for old-school text-art

• Tool that turns text into ASCII art

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