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## Software

- arttime — Brings curated ASCII/ANSI/UTF-8 art, flip-flopping animation, animated storyboards to terminal. It also is a full-featured clock, timer, and time manager. So you can now do boring time-management while looking at pretty text-art.

  https://github.com/poetaman/arttime || arttime-gitAUR

- ASCII Draw — An app to draw diagrams or anything using only ASCII.

  https://github.com/Nokse22/ascii-draw || ascii-drawAUR

- ascii-rain — Comfy rain for your console written in C with Ncurses.

  https://github.com/nkleemann/ascii-rain || ascii-rain-gitAUR

- Asciiquarium — An aquarium/sea animation in ASCII art.

  https://robobunny.com/projects/asciiquarium/ || asciiquarium

- Banner — Print large banners to ASCII terminals.

  https://shh.thathost.com/pub-unix/ || banner

- bash-pipes — An animated pipes terminal screensaver.

  https://github.com/pipeseroni/pipes.sh || bash-pipesAUR

- boxes — Text mode box and comment drawing filter.

  https://boxes.thomasjensen.com/ || boxesAUR

- cbonsai — A bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses.

  https://gitlab.com/jallbrit/cbonsai || cbonsaiAUR

- catimg — Print images in a terminal with 256 colors support.

  https://github.com/posva/catimg || catimg

- cmatrix — Animation that plays in terminal based on the text from "The Matrix".

  https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix || cmatrix

- DurDraw — ANSI, ASCII and Unicode art editor for the terminal, with animation, 256 colors, and mouse support.

  https://github.com/cmang/durdraw || durdrawAUR

- FIGlet — A program for making large letters out of ordinary text.

  http://www.figlet.org/ || figlet

- jp2a — A small utility for converting JPG and PNG images to ASCII.

  https://github.com/cslarsen/jp2a || jp2a

- neo-matrix — Simulates the digital rain from "The Matrix"

  https://github.com/st3w/neo || neo-matrixAUR

- nyancat — Renders nyancat in your terminal.

  https://nyancat.dakko.us/ || nyancat

- TOIlet — Free replacement for the FIGlet utility.

  http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet || toilet

- tty-clock — A digital clock in ncurses.

  https://github.com/xorg62/tty-clock || tty-clockAUR

- sl — A steam locomotive runs across your terminal when you type sl as you meant to type ls.

  https://github.com/eyJhb/sl || sl

- emacs — Artist-mode is a built-in package in GNU Emacs that allows you to create simple drawings and diagrams using the Emacs text editor.

  https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ArtistMode || emacs

- mkinitcpio-archlogo — Add colored Arch Linux ASCII art logo to early boot process.

  https://github.com/eworm-de/mkinitcpio-archlogo || mkinitcpio-archlogoAUR

For diagrams there is https://asciiflow.com/.

## Arch ASCII logos

See the original forum thread.

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by cmang

## Cowsay

Here are some examples of cowsay and fortune used together:

### Default cow with fortune

- Combined with the program cowsay:

    $ cowthink $(fortune)
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    ( lot of sleep. -W.C. Fields             )
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The ASCII images are generated by `.cow` text files located in `/usr/share/cows`, and all themes can be listed with the `cowsay -l`. These files can be edited to the user's liking; custom images can also be created from scratch or found on the net. The easiest way create a custom cow file is to use an existing one as a template. To test the custom file:

    $ cowsay -f /path/to/file $(fortune)

### Random cow with fortune

    $ fortune -c | cowthink -f $(find /usr/share/cows -type f | shuf -n 1)
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### Random custom cow with fortune

Complex commands can be chained to produce detailed ASCII art such as this Futurama example.

- Display a random cow with a random facial expression and wrap long lines of fortune text:

Note: The randomly selected cow is actually a toad chosen from a database with custom ASCII art

    $ fortune -a | fmt -80 -s | $(shuf -n 1 -e cowsay cowthink) -$(shuf -n 1 -e b d g p s t w y) -f $(shuf -n 1 -e $(cowsay -l | tail -n +2)) -n
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## Ponysay

For full 256-colored cowsay-like art use ponysay (version 3.0 has 422 ponies). The syntax is the same, meaning `$ ponysay message` to say something and `ponysay -l` for a complete list of ponies. To select a pony to display, run `$ ponysay --pony x "message"`, where `x` is a pony. To create more ponies use util-say-gitAUR and store them in `~/.local/share/ponysay/ponies` and `~/.local/share/ponysay/ttyponies/` for desktop and TTY, respectively.

## See also

- Arch Linux artwork
- /etc/issue "2.0" - My ASCII art version with Arch logo and text

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