ASCII Art Generator
Turn text into big ASCII-art lettering — banner-style block letters with your choice of fill character, ready to copy or download as .txt.
About the ASCII Art Generator
Type a word and this ASCII art generator renders it as large banner lettering built from plain characters — the same style as classic Unix banner and FIGlet output. It supports letters A-Z, digits 0-9 and common punctuation, with your choice of fill: hash marks, solid blocks, asterisks, at signs, dollar signs, or the letter itself repeated to form its own shape.
ASCII banners are everywhere developers live: README headers, code comment dividers, CLI welcome screens, Discord and Slack code blocks, terminal MOTDs and commit celebration messages. Because the art is plain text, it works anywhere a monospaced font does — no images, no dependencies.
Multi-line input renders each line as its own banner, and the output can be copied with one click or downloaded as a .txt file. Everything is generated instantly in your browser as you type.
How to Use the ASCII Art Generator
- 1Type your text — letters, numbers and basic punctuation are supported.
- 2Pick a fill character: #, solid blocks, *, @, $, or the letter itself.
- 3Preview the banner in the monospaced output box.
- 4Copy the ASCII art or download it as a .txt file.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why does my ASCII art look scrambled when I paste it?
It must be displayed in a monospaced font, where every character has equal width. In proportional fonts the columns drift and the shapes collapse. Paste into code editors, terminals, or wrap it in triple backticks on Discord, Slack, GitHub and Markdown to force monospace rendering.
Which characters can I use in the input?
Letters A-Z (lowercase is converted to uppercase), digits 0-9, space and the punctuation marks ! ? . , - ' : + =. Unsupported characters are skipped rather than breaking the banner, and each line of input becomes its own banner block.
What fill character works best?
The solid block (█) reads boldest on screens; # is the safest for maximum compatibility including old terminals and plain-ASCII contexts like email. The 'letter itself' option — where each glyph is drawn from its own character — is a classic banner style that looks great in README headers.
Can I put this in code comments?
Yes — that's one of its most popular uses. Paste the art inside a block comment and add your language's comment prefix per line if needed. Section-divider banners make long files dramatically easier to navigate with editor minimaps and quick scrolling.
Is this the same as FIGlet?
Same idea, simplified: FIGlet is the venerable program with hundreds of interchangeable fonts, while this tool uses one clean 5-row block font with selectable fill characters and zero installation. For most banners — headers, dividers, chat flexes — the output serves the same purpose.