Which characters are supported?

The built-in 5-row pixel font covers A–Z, 0–9, space, and a handful of symbols like ! ? . - and +. Letters are uppercased automatically, and any unsupported character is rendered as a blank space.

Why is the input limited to 12 characters?

Each glyph is five characters wide, so long strings quickly overflow the screen and lose their banner effect. The 12-character cap keeps the output readable on most terminals and pages.

Does this work like figlet?

It produces the same kind of large block-letter banners that figlet does, but it uses a compact built-in font rather than the full figlet font library. The output is plain monospaced text you can paste anywhere.

Will the art line up correctly when pasted?

Yes, as long as it is displayed in a monospaced (fixed-width) font. In proportional fonts the columns will not align, so wrap it in a code block or paste it into a terminal.

Is my text sent to a server?

No. The entire conversion runs in your browser using JavaScript. Nothing you type is uploaded or stored anywhere.

ASCII Art Text Generator

Turn plain text into eye-catching ASCII banners

This ASCII Art Text Generator converts short phrases into large block-letter banners built entirely from text characters. Drop the result into a terminal MOTD, a project README, a code comment, or a chat message to add a bit of retro flair that renders anywhere monospaced text is supported.

How it works

The tool ships with a compact bitmap font. Every supported glyph is stored as five rows of five bits, where a 1 marks a pixel that should be filled and a 0 marks blank space. To render a word, the generator looks up each character’s bitmap, then walks the five rows in parallel: for each row it concatenates the bits of every glyph, replacing each 1 with the chosen fill character (█, #, or ▓) and each 0 with a space, plus a one-column gap between letters. The five assembled rows are joined with newlines to form the finished banner. Characters that have no glyph fall back to a blank space so the layout never breaks.

Tips and example

For the input HI in Block style the output looks roughly like:

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

Keep banners to a single short word for the cleanest look, and always view or paste the result in a fixed-width font. If you need lowercase or extended symbols, type them anyway — they will simply appear as gaps, which you can use as intentional spacing.