ASCII portrait generator

Turn a selfie or a description into an ASCII portrait — a face built from letters, punctuation, and symbol shading. The text-portrait style is tuned for faces and expressions, and braille dots, block shading, or typewriter give you different textures to try. Download as a high-resolution image for avatars, prints, and gifts.

Make my portrait
1

Upload or describe

A selfie, or "curly hair, glasses, half smile".

2

Pick a portrait style

Text portrait, braille dots, block shading, typewriter.

3

Download

A crisp image that holds up at avatar size or poster size.

  • Styles tuned for faces and expressions
  • Works from a photo or from a text description
  • Iterate with plain-English edits
  • From 1 credit per portrait

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