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.
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A selfie, or "curly hair, glasses, half smile".
Pick a portrait style
Text portrait, braille dots, block shading, typewriter.
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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
Made by the community
Pythagoras Portrait
A detailed female portrait
Grayscale ASCII art of a long-haired cat sitting on a patterned surface.
Monochrome ASCII-style portrait of a person wearing a suit and tie
Monochrome ASCII portrait of a person wearing glasses and a suit.
Monochrome ASCII portrait of a person wearing a jacket against a grid background.
Monochrome ASCII portrait of a person in a racing suit.
ASCII-style grayscale portrait of a person wearing sunglasses and a printed shirt
Black-and-white ASCII portrait of a person wearing a hat and curled mustache.
Grayscale ASCII-style portrait of a person wearing a striped sports jersey.
Monochrome ASCII portrait of a person wearing a jacket.
Black-and-white ASCII portrait of a person with short hair and facial hair