emilkovacev/texttofont

text-to-font

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

Instructions

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
))