ASCII Playground

Upload an image and watch it dissolve into glowing ASCII characters, right in your browser.

Upload an image

Everything happens in your browser. No pixels ever leave this page.

Click to choose a filePNG, JPG, or GIF — smaller images convert faster

Character palette

Raw text output

Once converted, the ASCII characters will appear here as selectable, copyable text with real line breaks.

Under the hood

A tiny canvas samples your image into a grid, measures brightness per cell, and maps each cell to a character from a fixed ramp: MWNHQOC?7>!;:,. . All knobs live in code so you can tweak the ramp, density, and colors directly in this project.