r/bbs • u/Mb8N3CY4 • 12d ago

Is there any online ANS Colour Text Generators?

Hi there.... I would like to have a nice text "title" on my bbs.. but I am no artist... do you guys know any cool generators that can input text and output something cool and coloured like the Mystic Logo for example

https://vortexbbs.com/images/mysticlogo1.gif

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u/cognitivegear 12d ago

Not exactly what you want, but this project can use The Draw fonts to draw ansi based on text:

https://github.com/tat3r/tdfiglet

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u/nelgin 12d ago

I would +1 The Draw fonts. I use dosbox to setup my Draw environment with all the fonts. That's how I created most of my menus at End Of The Line BBS.

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u/nelgin 12d ago

I think this was a font from The Draw.

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u/Android8675 12d ago

I found some ascii text generators, past the output into pablodraw and use the paint brush to color the output (works like photo shop), pretty easy.

If you google hard enough there are image to ansi converters, but they are pretty basic and you still need to color the output yourself.

Good luck. -A.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

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u/ortista 11d ago

I used to really like the .BMP photo to ANSI conversion tools... Although this sysop seems to want more of a custom logo type arrangement. Nice post tho!

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u/mro-1337 11d ago

that was a custom piece of art created by grymjack. you should probably use figlet.

most of thedraw fonts look pretty lame.

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u/Open-Understanding48 11d ago

Ansi drawing tool:

https://github.com/mkrueger/icy_tools/releases

Can use tdf/figlet fonts - and edit ansis :)

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u/ten-oh-four 9d ago

Underrated comment - OP, this is what you should look into.

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u/shurato99 sysop 10d ago

I don't know if this helps any, but ZeusII is doing commissions. If you really want to do it yourself, you can try. I myself have no artistic talent and can't work an ANSI Editor to save my life aside from adding plain text in locations.

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u/Mb8N3CY4 10d ago

how would I contact him?

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u/shurato99 sysop 9d ago

He's on Facebook in any of the ANSI related groups. His name is Joel h o k s v a r d with an umlaut over the o. I think I spelled that right.

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u/Mb8N3CY4 9d ago

facebook? does that site still exist?

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u/Android8675 3d ago edited 3d ago

I know this convo is a week old, but here's a util you should look at, it'll convert images to ansi/unicode. Synchronet and Syncterm both support UTF8 output. With a little experimentation you can probably get images to display on your boards.

Edit: Forgot the link, it's called Chafa.

Edit2: Here's the man pages description:

DESCRIPTION - chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal. It has broad feature support, allowing it to be used on devices ranging from historical teleprinters to modern terminal emulators and everything in between.

You can specify one or more input files, but the default behavior is slightly different with multiple files --for instance, animations will not loop forever when there is more than one input file.

So yeah, I think it's worth checking out.