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1. chafa

   1 41 4,986 9.2 C

   📺🗿 Terminal graphics for the 21st century.

   

   Project mention: yazi: Rust Terminal File Manager with Image Preview — Alacritty Fix Included | dev.to | 2026-04-21

   On macOS, Überzug++'s X11/Wayland backend is disabled at compile time, so it can't overlay images. yazi automatically falls back to Chafa, which renders images using Unicode block characters inside the terminal.

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3. Genann

   2 7 2,269 0.0 C

   simple neural network library in ANSI C

   

4. imgcat

   3 1 919 3.3 C

   It's like cat, but for images.

   

5. ansilove

   4 1 423 4.8 C

   ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter in C

   

   Project mention: Show HN: MoebiusXBIN – ASCII and text-mode art editor with custom font support | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-30

   I've encountered SAUCE, long since; but the page is right. I've personally never directly encountered XBIN, and it does seem that it did not take off as predicted.

   * https://acid.org/images/0896/XBIN.TXT

   The world does not seem to have managed to do for text (art image) files what TIFF did for graphics files. Although https://16colo.rs/ , recently on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44665816) seems to be getting by on just SAUCE plus FILE_ID.DIZ.

   See https://github.com/ansilove/ansilove#features , for one example of what we have instead. (-:

   I would have quipped that someone has yet to have the idea of using JSON instead of these directly-machine-readable binary formats. But the DurDraw developers have indeed done that very thing.

   * https://github.com/cmang/durdraw/blob/master/durformat.md

6. cp437

   5 4 131 0.0 C

   Emulates an old-style "code page 437" / "IBM-PC" character set terminal on a modern UTF-8 terminal emulator.

   

7. sbbs

   6 1 104 10.0 C

   Mirror of gitlab.synchro.net/sbbs (don't submit pull requests here)

   

8. json-build

   7 2 50 1.6 C

   Tiny, zero-allocation JSON serializer written in ANSI C

   

9. termtris

   8 2 49 3.9 C

   Tetris game for terminals

   

10. QMK_V8

    9 1 5 6.8 C

    Custom QMK Keymap for Keychron V8

    

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