Kiara's ASCII Art Program allows you to create beautiful pieces of ASCII Art on a large canvas! Import and export text, image and even gifs files!
Available for free on windows in English, Dutch, French and Spanish!
Draw ASCII Art with...
- Easy to use tools
- Pencil: draws characters on the canvas
- Eraser: erases characters off the canvas
- Select: selects a part of the canvas
- Move: moves layers
- Shapes:
- Line: draws lines
- Rectangle: draws rectangles and squares
- Ellipse: draws ellipses and circles
- Bucket: fills in areas
- Text: types any character onto the canvas
- Layer support
- Copy & pasting
- Many different fonts
- Custom & preset palettes
- Filter & transformations
Save, export and import ASCII Art
- As images, such as .png, .jpg, .bmp and even gifs!
- Choose the characters you want your import result to use
- Gifs: every layer is a frame!
- As text files
- .aaf files (The program's own extension type for saving & opening files!)
Layer support!
- Name layers
- Hide layers
- Move layers
- Crop layers
- Duplicate layers
- Merge layers
- As many layers as you want!
Quality of Life Features
- Autosaving
- Never lose your progress again!
- If neccessary, can be turned off.
- Tool previews
- Displays how a shape would look like if drawn on the canvas.
- If neccessary, can be turned off.
- Dark & Light Mode
- For those working in the dark :)
- Canvas column auto-adjust in width to fit characters
- Keyboard shortcuts
