Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to ASCII Automata
ASCII AUTOMATA is a tool to analyze the visual connectivity of characters in textmode fonts. It works by scoring edge connectivity of each piece and finding the best matching neighbour piece. Every time it places a piece, it "grows" towards the edges it touches by placing a matching piece. The red heatmap shows how frequently each character is used, useful for analyzing the fonts. I initially made it as a tool for myself. When I design textmode art fonts it is sometimes difficult to figure out if a specific character would actually be useful for drawing or not. I wanted a tool which would…
ASCII Automata analyzes how well characters in textmode fonts connect visually to each other. The tool scores edge connectivity and automatically grows patterns by placing matching pieces next to each other, creating… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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- 2MA
2024 · mermaid-ascii.art · its alternatives →
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Typefont▲288An AI that recognizes the font of a text in a photo
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4TM
2022 · code.sgo.to · its alternatives →
- 5IM
I made a website for drawing ascii art with other people https://ascii-collab.app/ It's been online for a little over a year so there's a fair bit of stuff to browse if you want to look around (so much that I even made a poster https://ascii-collab.app/poster.png) There are other websites like yourworldoftext that do this but ascii-collab has some extra features like per-user undo/redo, box selection, a color highlight mode to see who made particular changes, and there's admin tools so I can remove spam. The code is open sourced here…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Create your own textmode graphics & unusual ASCII art
2025 · blog.glyphdrawing.club · its alternatives →
- 7CP
2012 · dchang.mit.edu · its alternatives →
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WhatTheFont▲433Shazam for fonts! Identify fonts with your camera.
2017 · myfonts.com · its alternatives →
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During the hype of llama.ttf months ago, I was speculating the potential of WASM shaper for even crazier purpose, one that fitter to a font shaper's duty -- to synthesize font at runtime. This project as proof-of-concept implements a synthesizer that generates and rasterizes handwriting-style font, backed by a super-lightweight RNN model (~14MiB).
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 10AA
Jan 2026 · files.littlebird.com.au · its alternatives →
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Esolang inspired by ASCII art. Contribute to aaronjanse/asciidots development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 12ATAscii to SVG▲416
2016 · ivanceras.github.io · its alternatives →
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- 14DT
2019 · dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com · its alternatives →
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3 months ago I wanted to draw an ASCII diagram to include in some documentation at work. I found the few tools online to be insufficient, and was suprised there wasn't a more complete tool to get the job done. Since, I've built Cascii from scratch in vanilla Javascript (I'm not an FE dev, it might be obvious...). I hope it works alright. Please check out the live version at https://cascii.app, report problems, make diagrams to improve your code's documentation. Hope you enjoy using it.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ASCII Art Paint▲150Surprise your readers with an original post using text art
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Render 3D models (OBJ, glTF, GLB, STL, .vox) as ASCII art — in the browser, in React or Vue, or straight in your terminal. A three.js-style API with no WebGL and no canvas: just text in a single <pre>.
Jun 2026 · glyphcss.com · its alternatives →
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Mark▲358Create flowcharts & diagrams in seconds powered by AI
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I've made an ASCII drawing board. You can set any brush, canvas size, export art as a text file. I want to keep it as manual/analog as possible, hence there is no tool for converting image to ASCII. Prompting LLMs to draw ASCII art turned out to be a difficult task . So instead I decided to ask it make a drawing board. Wihtout coding agent I wouldn't even try myself. Although it is an interesting task, it would drift me away. Basically it's just a drawing board with endless variations of textures and brushes: when you make large canvas and zoom out you don't see ASCII anymore, but…
2025 · delopsu.com · its alternatives →
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Create beautiful ascii trees. Contribute to spandanb/asciitree development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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- 23CA
2024 · jott.live · its alternatives →
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A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations - peterbrittain/asciimatics
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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