The name of the funky design technique is hard to remember, but after scratching the surface of Google, I was quickly reminded, it’s called ASCII Art.  This unique form of graphic design is derived from making pictures and designs, utilizing 95 of the 128 printable characters defined by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

We just thought it would be fun to put together a short list of ASCII Art Generators and Image Converters for our readers to mess around with, we hope you enjoy the mini-post.

This will convert images to ASCII art, I used it to make the image above:
http://www.lunatic.no/ol/img2aschtml.php

Not used this one yet, but it seems like a more modern interface, it converts images as well: http://www.typorganism.com/asciiomatic/

Here is one that will pump out that old-school style / text from characters look:
http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

This works well too: http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/