AnsiLove
More info
- Creator
- Frédéric Cambus
- Type
- Renderer / library
- Website
- ansilove.org
- Source
- github.com/ansilove
Tool that renders ANSI and ASCII art to PNG so it can be shown on the web.
AnsiLove takes text-mode art — ANSI, PCBoard, Binary, ArtWorx, iCE colors, XBin — and draws it as a pixel image with the correct CP437 font and colour palette. It reads SAUCE metadata to learn the width, the typeface and whether the blink bit should be treated as a bright background instead.
The current C version (libansilove) was written by Frédéric Cambus as a rewrite of older PHP code, and it is the engine behind much of the ANSI art you see reproduced in web galleries today. Without it the TheDraw era would be effectively unreadable on modern screens.