Awesome ASCII Apps

A curated list of open-source projects for building, designing, and shipping ASCII/ANSI/Braille-first software.

This list is optimized for people who want to build real products, not just one-off demos.

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/_/ |_|\\___/__,__/\\__/___/___/\\__/ /____/_/ |_/_/  /___/ /___/  /_/ |_|

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  / _ | / _ \\ / _ \\/ ___/   ASCII UI/UX apps + blueprint packs + imported art
 / __ |/ ___// ___/ /__     
/_/ |_/_/   /_/   \\___/

Scope

Included projects should be at least one of:

• end-user apps with strong ASCII/ANSI/Braille UI
• app frameworks/toolkits commonly used to build ASCII-first UX
• generators/editors/rendering engines for production workflows
• high-signal curated lists and font/asset foundations

Contents

• Awesome Lists & Discovery
• ASCII UI/UX Apps
• ASCII UI/UX Blueprint Packs (In This Repo)
• ASCII Art Showcase (Original + Imported)
• ASCII UI/UX Frameworks & Foundations
• Generators & Converters
• Editors, Drawing & Diagramming
• Libraries & SDKs
• Fonts & Assets
• Build Roadmap
• Contributing
• TODO

Awesome Lists & Discovery

• 90dy/awesome-ascii - Broad awesome list around ASCII projects.
• devtooligan/awesome-ascii-art - Curated resource list focused on ASCII art.
• ligurio/awesome-ttygames - Strong discovery list for terminal-native games.
• moul/awesome-ascii-art - Lightweight curated list for ASCII resources.

ASCII UI/UX Apps

• chubin/wttr.in - Weather UX delivered in terminal-friendly text output.
• da-luce/astroterm - Planetarium-style terminal experience.
• dialup-inc/ascii - CLI-first ASCII video chat experiment.
• ericm/stonks - Real-time stock visualizer in terminal graphs.
• gabe565/ascii-movie - SSH/Telnet ASCII movie server.
• maxcurzi/tplay - Terminal media player for ASCII rendering.
• nitram509/ascii-telnet-server - Self-hosted ASCII telnet animation server.
• poetaman/arttime - Time management app with text-art UX.
• rastapasta/mapscii - Interactive world map renderer for terminals.
• schachmat/wego - Terminal weather app with clean textual UI.
• shinshin86/oh-my-logo - Large gradient ASCII logos for CLI apps.
• tuanchauict/MonoSketch - ASCII graph drawing application.

ASCII UI/UX Blueprint Packs (In This Repo)

Start with these hands-on ASCII layout packs to design full product surfaces and reusable components:

• Blueprint Index
• 01 - AI Chat and Copilot
• 02 - Productivity and Collaboration
• 03 - Developer Platforms and Workflows
• 04 - SaaS Dashboard and Analytics
• 05 - Tailwind + shadcn Product Patterns
• 06 - Vercel AI SDK Chat Architectures
• 07 - Modern LLM Chatbot Patterns
• 08 - Auth, Onboarding, and Activation
• 09 - E-commerce, Marketplace, and Checkout
• 10 - AI Chatbot Archetypes (2026)
• 11 - Social, Community, and Creator Patterns
• Component Pack - Foundations and Navigation
• Component Pack - Interaction Components
• Component Pack - shadcn + Tailwind Components
• Component Pack - AI Chat and LLM Components
• Component Pack - System State Patterns
• Component Pack - Advanced Agentic Chat Components

Highest-impact execution order for new builds:

1. Vercel AI SDK chat architecture + LLM component packs
2. Tailwind + shadcn product shell patterns
3. Domain packs (auth/onboarding, ecommerce, collaboration, developer platform, analytics)

ASCII Art Showcase (Original + Imported)

Original: Product Surface Preview

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Chat Session                                                Artifact: launch-plan.md           |
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+
| Conversation                             | Artifact Canvas                                     |
| ---------------------------------------  | -------------------------------------------------- |
| User: draft launch plan                  | # Launch Plan                                       |
| AI: created outline                      | 1. Freeze risk endpoints                            |
| User: add rollback section               | 2. Canary 5% then 25%                               |
| AI: updated doc                          | 3. Auto-revert on error budget burn                 |
|                                          |                                                      |
| [Regenerate section]                     | [Copy] [Export] [Open PR]                           |
+------------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+

Imported: Upstream Snippet Gallery

Source index: imports/README.md

  _   _          _   _          __        __                 _       _
 | | | |   ___  | | | |   ___   \ \      / /   ___    _ __  | |   __| |
 | |_| |  / _ \ | | | |  / _ \   \ \ /\ / /   / _ \  | '__| | |  / _` |
 |  _  | |  __/ | | | | | (_) |   \ V  V /   | (_) | | |    | | | (_| |
 |_| |_|  \___| |_| |_|  \___/     \_/\_/     \___/  |_|    |_|  \__,_|

From common-nighthawk/go-figure: imports/common-nighthawk-go-figure-hello-world.txt

┌─────┐┌─────────┐┌─────┐
│socks││underwear││shirt│
└┬────┘└┬─┬──────┘└┬─┬──┘
 │      │┌▽─────┐  │┌▽───────┐
 │      ││pants │  ││tie     │
 │      │└┬──┬──┘  │└┬───────┘
┌▽──────▽─▽┐┌▽─────▽┐│
│shoes     ││belt   ││
└──────────┘└┬──────┘│
┌────────────▽───────▽┐
│jacket               │
└─────────────────────┘

From ArthurSonzogni/Diagon: imports/arthursonzogni-diagon-dag.txt

            10
          ___
      1   ╲       113
  1 + ─ + ╱   i = ───
      2   ‾‾‾      2
           0

From ArthurSonzogni/Diagon: imports/arthursonzogni-diagon-math.txt

$ curl -s 'wttr.in/{Nuremberg,Hamburg,Berlin}?format=3'
Nuremberg: 🌦 +11⁰C
Hamburg: 🌦 +8⁰C
Berlin: 🌦 +8⁰C

From chubin/wttr.in: imports/chubin-wttr-terminal-sample.txt

 ☺☻♥♦♣♠•◘○◙♂♀♪♫☼
►◄↕‼¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔▲▼
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./
0123456789:;<=>?
@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
`abcdefghijklmno
pqrstuvwxyz{|}~⌂

From 1j01/textual-paint: imports/1j01-textual-paint-cp437.txt

▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█     ▕▏      ▕▉
▉▊▋▌▍▎▏      🮇▎      🮇▊
▔🮂🮃▀🮄🮅🮆      🮈▍      🮈▋
▕🮇🮈▐🮉🮊🮋      ▐▌      ▐▌
             🮉▋      🮉▍
             🮊▊      🮊▎
 ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█    🮋▉      🮋▏
 ▔🮂🮃▀🮄🮅🮆█

From 1j01/textual-paint: imports/1j01-textual-paint-slopes.txt

From common-nighthawk/go-figure: imports/common-nighthawk-go-figure-foo-bar.txt

 _____                     ___     ____
 |  ___|   ___     ___     |__ \   | __ )    __ _   _ __
 | |_     / _ \   / _ \      / /   |  _ \   / _` | | '__|
 |  _|   | (_) | | (_) |    |_|    | |_) | | (_| | | |
 |_|      \___/   \___/     (_)    |____/   \__,_| |_|

From ascii-boxes/boxes: imports/ascii-boxes-boxes-sample.txt

 __________________________________
/\                                 \
\_|    May your days with Boxes    |
  |    be filled with discovery    |
  |    and delight!                |
  |   _____________________________|_
   \_/_______________________________/

From blampe/goat: imports/blampe-goat-hello-world-ascii.txt

     .------------.
o-->|Hello, world +--*
    '------------'

From blampe/goat: imports/blampe-goat-hello-world-utf8.txt

    ╭────────────┐
○──►│Hello, world├─●
    └────────────╯

From jtdaugherty/brick: imports/jtdaugherty-brick-hello-layout-result.txt

┌─────────Hello!─────────┐
│           │            │
│           │            │
│   Left    │   Right    │
│           │            │
│           │            │
└───────────┴────────────┘

From stathissideris/ditaa: imports/stathissideris-ditaa-diagrams-through-ascii.txt

    +--------+   +-------+    +-------+
    |        | --+ ditaa +--> |       |
    |  Text  |   +-------+    |diagram|
    |Document|   |!magic!|    |       |
    |     {d}|   |       |    |       |
    +---+----+   +-------+    +-------+
        :                         ^
        |       Lots of work      |
        +-------------------------+

From stathissideris/ditaa: imports/stathissideris-ditaa-color-codes-table.txt

Color codes
/-------------+-------------\
|cRED RED     |cBLU BLU     |
+-------------+-------------+
|cGRE GRE     |cPNK PNK     |
+-------------+-------------+
|cBLK BLK     |cYEL YEL     |
\-------------+-------------/

From khrome/ascii-art: imports/khrome-ascii-art-banner.txt

                       _  _                       _
                      (_)(_)                     | |
      __ _  ___   ___  _  _  ______   __ _  _ __ | |_
     / _` |/ __| / __|| || ||______| / _` || '__|| __|
    | (_| |\__ \| (__ | || |        | (_| || |   | |_
     \__,_||___/ \___||_||_|         \__,_||_|    \__|

From khrome/ascii-art: imports/khrome-ascii-art-doom-output.txt

______                          _
|  _  \                        | |
| | | |  ___  _ __ ___    ___  | |
| | | | / _ \| '_ ` _ \  / _ \ | |
| |/ / |  __/| | | | | || (_) ||_|
|___/   \___||_| |_| |_| \___/ (_)

From qeesung/image2ascii: imports/qeesung-image2ascii-usage.txt

image2ascii version: image2ascii/1.0.0
>> HomePage: https://github.com/qeesung/image2ascii
>> Issue   : https://github.com/qeesung/image2ascii/issues
>> Author  : qeesung
Usage: image2ascii [-s] -f <filename> -r <ratio> -w <width> -g <height>

From TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter: imports/thezoraiz-ascii-image-converter-usage.txt

ascii-image-converter [image paths/urls] -C
# Or
ascii-image-converter [image paths/urls] --color

ascii-image-converter [image paths/urls] -b
# Or
ascii-image-converter [image paths/urls] --braille

ASCII UI/UX Frameworks & Foundations

• ArthurSonzogni/FTXUI - Modern C++ terminal UI framework.
• charmbracelet/bubbletea - Go framework for event-driven terminal apps.
• danikaze/ascii-ui - Canvas-based terminal emulation and ASCII UI primitives.
• gdamore/tcell - Cell-based terminal handling library for Go.
• jtdaugherty/brick - Composable Haskell terminal UI toolkit.
• peterbrittain/asciimatics - Cross-platform package for text UIs and animations.
• python-prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit - Rich interactive prompt foundation for terminal apps.
• rcasia/ascii-ui.nvim - Emerging Neovim-centric ASCII UI framework.
• Textualize/textual - Python TUI framework for app-grade interfaces.
• urwid/urwid - Mature Python library for console user interfaces.

Generators & Converters

• ansilove/ansilove - Convert ANSI/ASCII artworks into PNG.
• Asthestarsfalll/img2art - Convert image, GIF, and video into ASCII output.
• FineFindus/artem - Rust-based image-to-ASCII converter.
• IonicaBizau/image-to-ascii - Node.js image conversion into text art.
• joelibaceta/video-to-ascii - Python video playback through ASCII frames.
• LachlanArthur/Braille-ASCII-Art - Braille-symbol rendering pipeline.
• qeesung/image2ascii - Image conversion utilities for terminal usage.
• ryan4yin/video2chars - Video-to-ASCII animation conversion toolkit.
• seatedro/glyph - Zig converter for images/videos to ASCII.
• TheScienceElf/Video-to-Text - Tooling for video-to-text playback workflows.
• TheZoraiz/ascii-image-converter - High-impact CLI image-to-ASCII converter.
• vietnh1009/ASCII-generator - Leading open-source ASCII generation engine.

Editors, Drawing & Diagramming

• 1j01/textual-paint - Terminal-native paint app.
• ArthurSonzogni/Diagon - Interactive diagram generator from textual structures.
• blampe/goat - Render ASCII diagrams as SVG.
• blocktronics/moebius - Modern ANSI/ASCII art editor.
• cmang/durdraw - Terminal editor with animation and palette support.
• esimov/diagram - Convert ASCII layouts into hand-drawn style diagrams.
• jbyuki/venn.nvim - Draw ASCII diagrams directly in Neovim.
• jtdaugherty/tart - Mouse-driven ASCII drawing in terminal.
• Kirilllive/ASCII_Art_Paint - Browser editor for ASCII graphics.
• stathissideris/ditaa - Transform ASCII diagrams to bitmap graphics.

Libraries & SDKs

Python

• darrenburns/rich-pixels - Render pixel/ASCII art in Rich terminals.
• pwaller/pyfiglet - FIGlet font rendering in Python.
• sepandhaghighi/art - Python ASCII art generation library.

JavaScript/TypeScript

• khrome/ascii-art - ANSI and ASCII graphics library for Node.js.
• mir3z/aalib.js - JavaScript ASCII rendering library.

Go

• ascii-boxes/boxes - CLI text-box rendering utility.
• common-nighthawk/go-figure - ASCII text banners in Go.
• fumiyas/qrc - Terminal QR generator with ASCII/Sixel support.

C/C++/Rust

• symisc/ascii_art - Real-time ASCII rendering library in C.

.NET

• drewnoakes/figgle - FIGlet-compatible ASCII text in C#.

Fonts & Assets

• MaximilianLloyd/ascii.nvim - Collection of ASCII art assets as Lua tables.
• robhagemans/hoard-of-bitfonts - Large bitmap font archive useful for ASCII workflows.
• xero/figlet-fonts - Popular FIGlet/Toilet font collection.

Build Roadmap

If you are building a new ASCII artistic app ecosystem, this sequence has the highest leverage:

1. Start with vietnh1009/ASCII-generator as core rendering baseline.
2. Add app UX foundations from Textualize/textual or charmbracelet/bubbletea.
3. Integrate editing workflows from blocktronics/moebius and cmang/durdraw.
4. Ship terminal visuals and branding via shinshin86/oh-my-logo.

Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting entries.

TODO

See TODO.md for the active backlog, including:

1. README ASCII-art expansion tracking.
2. Imported ASCII UI/UX snippet expansion from upstream repos.

License

MIT