ASCII art in the terminal

Arka renders ASCII art from text or images directly in your terminal.

Text banners

arka make ascii art HELLO WORLD
arka ascii banner Arka Agent
arka figlet "Good morning"
ascii_art Hello from Arka

Optional font (when figlet or pyfiglet is installed):

ascii_art --font slant "Ship it"

Default font: standard. List fonts with figlet -f? or pyfiglet -l.

arka ascii art from photo.jpg
arka convert logo.png to ascii
ascii_art --image screenshot.png

Images are downscaled and mapped to ASCII characters (@%#*+=-:. ).

If figlet and pyfiglet are unavailable, Arka uses a built-in 5-row block font for A–Z, 0–9, and spaces.

# macOS
brew install figlet

# Python
pip install pyfiglet

Image ASCII works without figlet — only text banners benefit from external font libraries.