asciify
Image → ASCII art, in the browser. One page, no account, nothing uploaded.
npm install
npm run dev
What it does
- Drop, pick or paste an image.
- Make it for a phone wallpaper, desktop wallpaper, square or portrait post, story, X header, or a custom size. That locks the crop to the right shape (adjust it with Crop), picks a column count that gives readable characters at that size (Detail: bold / normal / fine), and exports exactly those pixels. Free keeps the image's own shape.
- Pick a style, or type any text and it becomes the character ramp (sorted by how much ink each character has).
- Fix what you don't like: brushes (erase, restore, lighter, darker, paint an alphabet, paint a colour, stamp a character) or edit the result as plain text.
- Export PNG, SVG, or text. Or copy the text. Columns, cell shape, glyph size, the tonal knobs and the screen effects (glow, scanlines, vignette) live under Advanced. Screen effects apply to PNG; SVG and text stay clean.
How it works
Everything is in lib/ascii.ts and runs on the CPU:
sampleImage() downsamples the image to one pixel per character cell (two-step scaling so big photos don't alias) and keeps a brightness and a colour per cell.compose() turns that into one character and one colour per cell using the settings (ramp, gamma, invert, contour, shade…) and the user's edits. Edits live in Overrides, one slot per cell, so they survive style changes and undo is just a copy.render() draws the grid to a canvas; toText() and toSVG() produce the other formats from the same grid.
The UI is three files: components/home.tsx (drop zone), components/editor.tsx (everything else), components/ui.tsx (buttons, chips, sliders). Styles come from app/globals.css: warm near-black, amber accent, Geist Sans and Geist Mono.
Adding a style
Add one object to PRESETS in lib/presets.ts. A preset is a partial Settings bag; everything not set falls back to DEFAULTS.
