A browser based drawing program that rasters characters instead of single pixels, to support the creation of text based diagrams and artwork (e.g. ANSI and ASCII art). Charaster can be used online from GitHub pages or offline by downloading the source and opening index.html. For more information about the development progress of this application and how to use it visit the wiki.

The above screenshot includes ASCII art from the cowsay and sl commands. Charaster can export the drawing to be rendered inside a terminal by using the example Bash command of echo -e "$(cat charaster.sh)".

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