Tag Archives: 2025

Image-to-text conversions made in Chafa by its author, Hans Petter Jansson, 2025. The first two use the Terminus font and the bottom two use Blapinus. The original Himeji image is 3.4 MB in the PNG-format, while the 200-column text version is less than 0.9 MB. A JPG in 90% quality is 724 KB while a gzip-compressed 200-column text version is 230 KB.

textmode.art by humanbydefinition is a browser tool that allows you to upload and layer images and videos and add effects to it. You can experiment with character sets and many other things. Work in progress.