Top 7 C++ ascii-art Projects

FTXUI

39 6,094 8.3 C++

Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang

Project mention: Functional Terminal User Interface | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30

timg

8 1,746 8.9 C++

A terminal image and video viewer.

Project mention: Show HN: a Rust Based CLI tool 'imgcatr' for displaying images | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-16

timg is a really nice similar tool that does pixel graphics in the terminal window if supported, falling back to character graphics if not.
The big plus is that it supports SVG images.
https://github.com/hzeller/timg
And it is available via brew/apt/etc.

WorkOS

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Diagon

7 1,426 5.1 C++

Interactive ASCII art diagram generators. :star2:

Project mention: Architecture diagrams enable better conversations | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-22

A few more ASCII-based tool that you could add into your workflow are https://arthursonzogni.com/Diagon/#Sequence which can be used to generate the ASCII that you input into something like Typogram (https://google.github.io/typograms/).
For example, input:
  Renderer -> Browser: BeginNavigation()

infekt

1 334 2.5 C++

The ultimate best NFO viewer, ever!

Project mention: Razor 1911 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-10-30

NFO viewers on GitHub:
https://github.com/model-map/EmpressNfo
https://github.com/syndicodefront/infekt
nfo files were used to describe the release.
Similar to FILE_ID.DIZ files, which were a way to describe a zip file for bbs software to index them.

ascii-graphics

1 29 10.0 C++

3D graphics in the terminal using ASCII characters
ffont

1 15 0.0 C++

Fegeya FFont, Unique CLI ASCII Art generator with cool fonts!
ASCII-Invader

1 1 0.0 C++

An ASCII terminal variation of the popular Space Invader game
InfluxDB

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).