191 animated ASCII art pieces you can drop into any web page
Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
ascii.rest offers 191 animated ASCII pieces — 3D shapes, physics simulations, creatures, UI components, charts, type effects, 27 language logos, and 22 Linux distros — each a dependency-free TypeScript module. Use them in HTML, React, Astro, or plain TypeScript; they're MIT-licensed and free to modify. The site also includes 13 full-color scenes like alpine dawn and aurora fjord.
191 animated ascii pieces for web pages: 3D shapes, physics, creatures, loaders, charts, type, 27 language logos and 22 Linux distros in colour or one ink, and 13 full-colour scenes like the one above.
- boguscoder
This looks aesthetically pleasing but this is not ASCII Art it seems, where’s ascii? All those differently sized dots are not ascii chars, are they? Perhaps this is unicode-art?
- gavmor
Gorgeous, impressive, well done—
But it strikes me as an affectation of technical austerity, i.e. you’re borrowing the credibility of a constrained medium without embracing its constraints.
Again, it's very pretty but... it's a bit like reconfiguring your Tesla to look more like a Citroën 2CV.
- BugsJustFindMe
I see nothing being animated because my system is set to prefer reduced motion. That's a cool accommodation, but I wish at least the demo page made that more obvious.
Also, the art scenes section is not ASCII.
- robbomacrae
Thats awesome. I did something similar (much smaller scale) for Claude Code/Pi to show how much it's working https://github.com/robdmac/flow
But this ASCII Art reminds me of my original desire to have something for each server I SSH into to help me keep a mental map of where I am. I'm not SSH'ing into servers anymore but if I was, I'd totally be trying to remake these scenes on the terminal!
- burmask
I kept scrolling down and my amazement grew as I could see all fun the op had making this library. Split-flap [https://ascii.rest/split-flap/] is awesome. And the nature ones [https://ascii.rest/fern/] got me thinking I need a digital frame to display them on. Would be some cool wall art. This ASCII sets a relaxed mood - except for that vibrating spinners page @ZeWaka :). Thank you for your contribution op!