Drop in a photo, a video or your webcam. Shape the tones like in a darkroom, choose how characters get picked, then export straight to GitHub, Discord, your terminal or a GIF.
Free and open source, no sign-up. Everything runs in your browser, and your images never leave your device.
Press a key to change how characters are chosen, or drop any image onto this page.
A proper instrument for character art, with the parts other converters skip.
Most converters only ask how dark a patch is. Shape mode compares every cell with the outline of each glyph, so a diagonal becomes a slash and a lower edge becomes an underscore. The result reads like something an artist typed.
Pick a name, a quote or a line you wrote, and the image gets drawn with it. Brightness sets how bold each letter looks. Made for gifts, posters and profile headers.
Point your camera at something and watch it turn into characters in real time. Record up to ten seconds, or loop any still image with effects like decode, rain, scan and wave. Export as a GIF, a video file or a tiny HTML player.
Paint characters, erase the background or type a signature straight onto the canvas. Your edits stay in place while you keep adjusting tone and width.
Every destination has its own limits. Pick where it's going and Atelier sizes, wraps and encodes it for you.
No uploads, no accounts, no waiting on a server. Conversion, recording and encoding all happen on your own device. The code is open source, so you can check that for yourself.