Images & video
Drop in stills or clips. Example assets and presets help you explore fast.
Local · In-browser · Open source
Turn pixels into glyphs - images & video to ASCII art.
Glyphtrix renders ASCII visual art entirely on your device. Fine-tune density, characters, colors, and fonts, then export as PNG, text, or a frame sequence.
Capabilities
Everything you need to dial in the look
Live adjustments
Brightness, contrast, and more with a preview that updates as you tweak.
Deep customization
Character sets across languages and Unicode, fonts, palettes, spacing, density, and scale.
Exports
PNG snapshots, plain text, or ZIP sequences for video frames.
Privacy
Your files stay on your machine
Processing runs in the browser. Nothing is uploaded for conversion. Media lives temporarily as blobs until you close or refresh - ideal for experimenting without sending assets to a server.
At a glance
- No cloud rendering pipeline
- No install required - optional offline bundle via static files
- Open codebase you can inspect and fork
How it works
From canvas pixels to characters
Glyphtrix reads the image on a canvas, applies your adjustments, divides the frame into a grid sized by Density, maps each cell’s brightness to a character from your set, then paints those glyphs with your chosen colors and font - giving you printable ASCII art or a stylized terminal aesthetic.
Try it
See your media as glyphs
Use the hosted build or open this repo’s app locally - same workflow, your choice.