txtfx

Turn any image into animated ASCII art. Drop an image, convert it to ASCII, layer effects on top, and export the result.

Features

• Image to ASCII — adjustable font size, line height, letter spacing, character ramp, gamma, and blend modes
• Mask painting — brush foreground/background regions to control where effects appear
• Timeline — keyframe effects across a timeline, loop playback, scrub and preview
• 12 built-in effects — twinkle, meteor, rain, snow, fire, matrix, scanline, glitch, typewriter, decode, firework, custom emitter
• Export — HTML with embedded styles, or rendered video

Stack

Next.js, TypeScript, Zustand. DOM <pre> rendering with canvas glow layer.

Dev

bun install
bun dev

Open localhost:3000.

Build

bun run build