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Lokesh Dhakar's ascii.today renders your text in every FIGlet font at once, plays tones as you type, and copies any block with one click.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 03, 2026
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ASCII title generator — Jonn Leffmann / CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
ASCII title generator — Jonn Leffmann / CC BY 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Lokesh Dhakar's ASCII Today renders your text as big block letters made out of slashes, pipes, and underscores — the kind that head old README files and source-code comments. When you type a word at ascii.today, all 50 fonts appear at once in a grid, redrawing character by character. 

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