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ASCII Art & Dot Matrix

ASCII art & dot matrix images built from characters and dots: text-mode animation and LED displays.

ASCII art builds images out of text characters, and dot-matrix design builds them out of grids of dots, like LED panels and old terminals. Both are back in interfaces, brand systems and generative work, where their low resolution feels honest and playful. This page gathers ASCII animation and renderers, interfaces and devices drawn in characters, LED-style displays and dot-matrix visuals, many generated in code, by designers such as Raunak Das and Tameem Sankari.

19 works by 15 creators, newest added 5 November 2026. Each is credited to the people who made it and links to the original.

All 19 ASCII Art & Dot Matrix

  1. ElevenLabs October Recap by Marina Kondratenko — A month of in-house brand design at ElevenLabs in one recap, from brand guidelines and type scale to packaging, a research meetup bus ad and a dot-matrix title for After Hours.
  2. Glyph Card Blue by Youssef — An ASCII story card for SwiftUI and the web from MetalForge, a shader library, where blank holes drift through a field of characters like weather on a map, one following the cursor.
  3. Dot Matrix Weather App by BThree — A weather app concept for iPhone where picking a city on the edge of the screen recolours the whole interface to match its sky, the day’s forecast redrawn as a dot-matrix chart.
  4. ASCII Grid Flame by Raunak Das — An ASCII art fire effect where each monospace glyph is locked in its own grid cell, so the flame seems to burn through a screen of type rather than across it, sparks and all.
  5. ASCII Rocket by Raunak Das — An ASCII art 3D rocket built from tiny dot characters, a retro space motion study that turns slowly on its axis so the porthole circles away, as convincing as a rendered model.
  6. Blueprint Tool Visuals by Drice Roland — Generative patterns from design tools built in Blueprint, an app that lets designers make their own tools and share them with clients, from pixel tapestries to binary digits and leaves.
  7. Taste Directors by Jack Hillery — A logo animation for Taste Directors, the invite-only network of AI-powered creative directors, whose mark of two head profiles is rebuilt in ASCII characters and sent through 3D forms.
  8. Own It. Make It. Reveal It. by Tameem Sankari — A creative coding piece in Processing that crosses a halftone portrait with ASCII-style code trails, braces and hashes crawling over the face as if the program were drawing itself.
  9. ASCII Flame by Raunak Das — An ASCII art flame in monospaced characters, one of two versions put to a vote, where sparse dots lick the edges and dense 0s, 1s and 8s pack its hot core in a looping teal and green.
  10. ASCII Earth by Raunak Das — An ASCII art globe for an Earth web page, a rotating 3D sphere drawn only in dot characters, where denser dots make land and clouds and the night side fades into sparse lines.
  11. LED Butter Pan by BB Korry — A hardware experiment in pixel art: a frying pan whose base is an LED grid, where a pat of butter melts, slides and sizzles as the pan tilts, now three times faster than before.
  12. Phrasis by Corey Fitz-Gerald — Phrasis, a web app camera that describes instead of captures, redraws a photo as a picture made of words, so Hokusai’s wave is built from rise and fall and a beach from shade and grass.
  13. Timer Widget by Sasha Birukoff — A timer UI component built on a dot matrix, where a round grid of red dots turns a step with each second beside the digits, a tiny clock whose pattern does the counting.
  14. Focus Music Maker by Shivani Matlapudi — A focus music maker web app that turns doodles into an ambient soundtrack: draw on the dot-matrix screen of a small skeuomorphic device and it plays while you time a work session.
  15. Pulvinar and Dumont Templates by Satto.studio — The launch film of two Framer portfolio templates, one cinematic for video and photography, one calm and editorial, told through a dot-matrix P that keeps flickering into a D.
  16. On One Million Runner by Skala Design — A halftone dot animation for the sports brand On and its first million followers, where single dots join into a runner and a shoe, an image of individuals forming a movement.
  17. Keep Climbing by PERFECTLOOP — A 3D loop in the webcore style, where the Windows 98 interface turns into architecture: a figure of tiny glyphs climbs an endless spiral staircase of Networking dialog boxes.
  18. Measured by Metrics by Tameem Sankari — A creative coding piece in ASCII art about how follower counts and salaries turn a life into a grid, where a human profile drawn in flickering numbers still reads as someone.
  19. ASCII Pocket Device by Kind of Device — An early ESP32 hardware prototype for a smart home pocket device, where an ASCII dot-matrix animation follows the gyroscope as it tilts and a Philips Hue light changes in sync.

Featuring work by

Raunak Das, Tameem Sankari, Marina Kondratenko, Youssef, BThree, Drice Roland, Jack Hillery, BB Korry, Corey Fitz-Gerald, Sasha Birukoff, Shivani Matlapudi, Satto.studio, Skala Design, PERFECTLOOP, Kind of Device.

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