ASCII Apocalypse (version 1.0)

Do you like ASCII art but hate making it by hand? We sure do. Here we’ve made a JS and HTML 5 canvas ASCII art creator that will convert a normal image in to sweet ASCII art. The whole thing runs client side and you can embed it in your web page by including a few JavaScript libraries via a few HTML <script> tags.

The project was a fun experiment with making ASCII art, primarily of Bruce Campbell, and JavaScript that’ll execute itself on document load to do some fun stuff to any page. The code also has hooks to use custom colors and character sets in case you want to tailor the ASCII art.

Check out the ASCII Apocalypse (version 1.0) website for example use and downloads.