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ASCII-O-Matic – It’s an old one but it still rocks.

Fun little Flash app ASCII-O-Matic turns any small JPG image into plain text.

Upload your 60 by 50 pixel portrait (“Face photos work best”) and the ASCII-O-Matic turns it into a text. ASCII-O-Matic will even provide the HTML to include plain text results on your web site. Click on the LH mascot’s ASCII image on the right to get a closer look at the individual characters. Cool! Firefox users – make sure you allow pop-ups from the ASCII-O-Matic site to upload your own image. source – like hacker

and here is ASCII Generator for text graphics for all sorts of typography.

ASCII Generator