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ASCII Portrait maker

A sculpted head made of thousands of glowing text characters decodes out of scrambled symbols, slowly turns, and types a caption underneath. Type your own words, adjust it live, then download the MP4 or a GIF. Free, made in your browser, nothing uploaded.

Your words (caption)

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ASCII Portrait

Code and more

Presets

Characters

Character size12

Height of one character in pixels. Smaller shows more detail, larger reads more as text.

Character colour#5dffa0

Background#020a05

If it is lighter than the characters, the picture flips to ink on paper.

Screen glow0.55

Soft bloom around bright characters. 0 for a clean print look.

Contrast1.15

Decode from scrambled symbols

The portrait starts as random characters that settle into the image.

Head turn40

How far the head turns over the clip, in degrees.

Carved hair

Your words stay on this device: the video is made in your browser.

1Pick a look
Titles, a lower third, a quote card, a neon sign, a news ticker, a typewriter and more.
2Type your words
Change the colours and timing too, or press Shuffle. Your words stay on your device.
3Export as video
Export makes an MP4 in your browser. Post it, or hand the exact code to Claude or Codex.