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/ALL STYLES

Every style in ASCII Magic

14 image and video styles — from classic ASCII characters and pixel art to voxel cubes, photo mosaic, halftone dots, glitch, LEGO and more. Click any card to try the look instantly on your own photo or video.

14 styles
2 dedicated guides live
1/week new guide cadence
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/PICK A STYLE

14 ways to transform any image

Each card opens the editor with that style pre-applied — drop your photo or video to see it instantly. Where a dedicated guide exists, "Read more" takes you to the long-form page.

ASCII art rendered with classic printable characters — @ # S 0 8 X mapped to brightness, producing the iconic text-art look

Characters — ASCII Art

Classic ASCII art — printable characters like @, #, S, 0, 8 mapped to image brightness. The iconic text-art look.

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Image rendered with Unicode block characters — full blocks, half blocks and quarter blocks for a dense terminal pixel aesthetic

Block Characters

Half-block, quarter-block and full-block Unicode glyphs — dense pixel-art-like detail with a terminal aesthetic.

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Photo mosaic — image rendered as a grid of colour-sampled tiles

Photo Mosaic

Every cell becomes a coloured tile sampled from the original photo. Pick square, wide or tall shapes for different feels.

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LEGO-style brick mosaic of a photograph — studded tile rendering with raised-dot highlights

LEGO Bricks

Posterised LEGO-style studded tiles with raised-dot highlights. Looks like a brick mosaic of your photo.

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Halftone-style print look — image rendered with filled circles whose sizes scale with brightness

Dots — Halftone Print

Dot matrix mode draws filled circles instead of glyphs — circles scale with brightness for a halftone-print effect.

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Voxel cubes — image rendered as isometric 3D cubes with per-face shading

Voxel Cubes

3D isometric cubes with per-face shading, adjustable cell size and outline. Turn a photo into voxel art.

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Disco mirror sphere — glitter-tile rendering wrapped onto a sphere with bloom and lens flares

Disco — Mirror Sphere

Glitter-tile rendering that wraps your image onto a mirror-ball sphere with bloom and lens flares.

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Animated ASCII art — frames rendered as ASCII for looping motion playback

Animated ASCII

Animation mode renders every frame as ASCII for looping motion. Export as MP4 or GIF.

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Cross glyph ASCII — image composed of plus and × signs forming a hatched grid texture

Cross Glyphs

Plus and × glyphs form a hatched grid texture across the image. Crisp, graphic, monochrome friendly.

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Diagonal strokes ASCII — image rendered with slashes producing a directional weave texture

Diagonal Strokes

Slashes form a directional weave texture — gives images a brushed, sketched feel.

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Diamond glyph ASCII — sharp jewel-like ◆ glyphs sized by image brightness

Diamond Glyphs

Sharp jewel-like diamond glyphs ◆ with brightness-driven sizing. Premium, decorative, ornate.

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Vertical line ASCII — image rendered with vertical line glyphs producing a rain or barcode texture

Lines — Vertical Strokes

Vertical line glyphs that read like rain or barcode static — minimal, graphic, hypnotic.

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Mixed glyph ASCII — composite ramp combining multiple character families for richer textural detail

Mixed Glyphs

Composite ramp combining multiple character families for richer textural detail. Use for portraits and high-detail scenes.

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All 14 styles are live in the editor right now. Long-form guides for each style ship at a cadence of roughly one per week — currently 2 of 14 guides published.