https://pypi.org/project/text-to-font/
Take a .ttf file and generate ascii art using the font for text. Use any symbols for generating the font + fun mode where each character is built up of itself in ascii art
Run pip install text-to-font
The following code prints the ascii art for "Hello!"
in string format
from text_to_font.transformations import word_to_ascii
print(word_to_ascii(
phrase='Hello!',
font_size=12,
kerning=1,
font_path='~/fonts/somefont.ttf' # defaults to built-in 'slkscr.ttf' (SilkScreen) font
))