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Software

• Asciiquarium — An aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/ || asciiquarium

• boxes — Text mode box and comment drawing filter.

http://boxes.thomasjensen.com/ || boxes^AUR, boxes-git^AUR

• FIGlet — A program for making large letters out of ordinary text.

http://www.figlet.org/ || figlet

• jp2a — A small utility for converting JPG images to ASCII.

https://csl.name/jp2a/ || jp2a

• TOIlet — Free replacement for the FIGlet utility.

http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet || toilet^AUR

For diagrams there is http://asciiflow.com/.

Arch ASCII logos

See the original forum thread.

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by Cyllos

See also

• Arch Linux artwork
• /etc/issue "2.0" - My ASCII art version with Arch logo and text