Create beautiful ASCII art, diagrams, banners, and text graphics. Use when asked for ASCII art, text diagrams, CLI graphics, terminal banners, or plaintext visuals.
Create ASCII art with craft. Every character is a pixel. The constraint is the gift.
ASCII art is typography at its limit. The monospace grid is your canvas. Whitespace is not empty — it is structure.
Principles:
Light: . · ˙ ' `
Medium: - ~ = + * : ;
Heavy: # @ % & $
Block: ░ ▒ ▓ █
Horizontal: - = _ ─ ━
Vertical: | │ ┃
Diagonal: / \
Corners: + ┌ ┐ └ ┘ ╭ ╮ ╰ ╯
T-joins: ├ ┤ ┬ ┴ ┼
Double: ═ ║ ╔ ╗ ╚ ╝ ╠ ╣ ╦ ╩ ╬
Rounded: ╭ ╮ ╰ ╯
Simple: <- -> ^ v
Fancy: ← → ↑ ↓ ↔ ↕
Triangle: ◀ ▶ ▲ ▼
Dots: · • ●
Squares: □ ■ ▪ ▫
Circles: ○ ● ◯ ◉
Stars: * ✱ ✳ ★ ☆
┌─────────────────────┐
│ YOUR TEXT HERE │
└─────────────────────┘
╔═════════════════════╗
║ YOUR TEXT HERE ║
╚═════════════════════╝
╭─────────────────────╮
│ YOUR TEXT HERE │
╰─────────────────────╯
┌─────────────────────┐
│ YOUR TEXT HERE │▒
└─────────────────────┘▒
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│ Start │────▶│ Process │────▶│ End │
└─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘
│
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┌─────────┐
│ Branch │
└─────────┘
project/
├── src/
│ ├── components/
│ │ ├── Button.tsx
│ │ └── Card.tsx
│ ├── utils/
│ │ └── helpers.ts
│ └── index.ts
├── package.json
└── README.md
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Client │
└──────────────────┬───────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ API Gateway │
└───────┬──────────────────────┬───────────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌───────────────┐ ┌───────────────┐
│ Service A │ │ Service B │
└───────┬───────┘ └───────┬───────┘
│ │
└──────────┬───────────┘
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┌───────────────┐
│ Database │
└───────────────┘
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│ │ │ │ │
v1.0 v1.1 v2.0 v2.1 v3.0
Jan Mar Jun Sep Dec
┌──────────┬───────────┬─────────┐
│ Name │ Role │ Status │
├──────────┼───────────┼─────────┤
│ Alice │ Engineer │ Active │
│ Bob │ Designer │ Active │
│ Carol │ Manager │ Away │
└──────────┴───────────┴─────────┘
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