Kiara's ASCII Art Program

Kiara's ASCII Art Program allows you to create beautiful pieces of ASCII Art on a large canvas! Import and export text, image and even gifs files!

Available for free on windows in English, Dutch, French and Spanish!

Draw ASCII Art with...

• Easy to use tools
  • Pencil: draws characters on the canvas
  • Eraser: erases characters off the canvas
  • Select: selects a part of the canvas
  • Move: moves layers
  • Shapes:
    • Line: draws lines
    • Rectangle: draws rectangles and squares
    • Ellipse: draws ellipses and circles
  • Bucket: fills in areas
  • Text: types any character onto the canvas
• Layer support
• Copy & pasting
• Many different fonts
• Custom & preset palettes
• Filter & transformations
  • Mirror
  • Outline
  • Wave

Save, export and import ASCII Art

• As images, such as .png, .jpg, .bmp and even gifs!
  • Export in color
  • Choose the characters you want your import result to use
  • Gifs: every layer is a frame!
• As text files
• .aaf files (The program's own extension type for saving & opening files!)

Layer support!

• Name layers
• Hide layers
• Move layers
• Crop layers
• Duplicate layers
• Merge layers
• As many layers as you want!
  

Quality of Life Features

• Autosaving
  • Never lose your progress again!
  • If neccessary, can be turned off.
• Tool previews
  • Displays how a shape would look like if drawn on the canvas.
  • If neccessary, can be turned off.
• Dark & Light Mode
  • For those working in the dark :)
• Canvas column auto-adjust in width to fit characters
• Keyboard shortcuts