ascii-art - ASCII Art Skill
Provides multiple CLI tools and APIs to create text banners, speech bubbles, decorative borders, colored text, and image-to-ASCII art.
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Updated: 2026-09-23Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Render text banners using pyfiglet
- Convert text to ASCII via API
- Create message art using cowsay
- Draw decorative borders using boxes
- Generate colored text using TOIlet
- Convert images to ASCII art
- Fetch pre-made ASCII art
- Generate ASCII QR codes
- Display weather in ASCII art
Inputs
- Text strings
- Image files or URLs
- Subject keywords
- Location names
Outputs
- Plain text ASCII art banners
- Speech bubble text art
- Framed text borders
- ANSI colored text art
- Image-derived ASCII art
- ASCII QR codes
- ASCII weather reports
- Saved ASCII text files
Requirements
- Linux, macOS, or Windows OS
- Python 3 and pyfiglet package
- curl CLI tool
- cowsay CLI tool
- boxes CLI tool
- TOIlet CLI tool
- ascii-image-converter or jp2a tool
- Internet connection for REST APIs