The name stays in your browser. A copied link keeps it after the # sign, which browsers never send to a server.
Designs
Designs marked "classic" come from the old TextEditor.com collection, gathered from asciiart.eu, asciiart.website and textart4u. The narrow ones are our own.
Art made for TextEditor.com is free to use under CC BY 4.0. Just name TextEditor.com as the source.
Pick the day and a designNarrow designs travel best. The width under the preview tells you how wide your card is.
Type the nameIt is centered under the drawing. Big letters and Frame put it right in the card.
Copy or saveUse the code block copy for Discord and Slack. For Instagram or a status update, save the image.
Why a card falls apart in a chat
Text art only works when every character is the same width. That is called a monospaced font. Most chat apps use a font where an "i" is thin and an "m" is wide, so the lines slide out of place.
The same cake in two fonts
Monospaced, like a code block
i i i
_|__|__|_
|~~~~~~~~~|
|_________|
A normal chat font
i i i
_|__|__|_
|~~~~~~~~~|
|_________|
Discord and Slack show text between three backticks (```) in a monospaced font. The "Copy for Discord or Slack" button adds them for you. Phones also wrap long lines, so a card that is narrow enough for a phone screen keeps its shape in more places.
Emoji and some symbols are a problem too. Many fonts draw them about two characters wide, but not all of them. Cards made only of plain keyboard characters and box lines are the safest.
Draw a Christmas tree with keyboard symbols
Each row of a tree is one character wider on both sides than the row above it. The trunk sits in the middle of the last row.
People drew with typewriters long before email. The history of ASCII art includes a newspaper ad in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 6 January 1875 that was made from typewriter characters. Pictures made of letters were also sent over teletype machines as early as 1923.
The name comes from ASCII, a character set from 1963. It has 95 characters you can print, and old text art uses only those. The newer designs here also use box lines like ┏━┓, which came later with Unicode.
Type the name in the "To" box. In the Picture layout it appears centered under the drawing. Big letters can also write the name itself in big letters, and Frame puts it inside the frame.
Why does the cake look broken on my phone?
Your chat app uses a font where letters have different widths, or the screen is too narrow and the lines wrap. Pick a narrow design, use the code block copy where the app has code blocks, or send the card as an image.
Can I post a card on Instagram?
Instagram does not show text in a monospaced font, so the lines move. Click "Save as image" and post the picture instead. The image is square, 1080 by 1080 pixels.
Is the name I type saved anywhere?
No. The card is made in your browser and nothing is sent to us. If you copy a link, the name sits after the # sign. Browsers keep that part to themselves and never send it to a server.
Can I change a design?
Yes. Click "Edit by hand" and type straight into the card. Copy and Save as image then use your version.
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