Type a word, get it back in 50 ASCII art fonts

Lokesh Dhakar's ASCII Today tool renders any text you type as ASCII art — the kind made of slashes, pipes, and underscores that traditionally appear in old README files and source code comments. According to Boing Boing, when you visit ascii.today, all fifty fonts appear at once in a grid, redrawing character by character as you type. It brings retro terminal aesthetics to a modern browser.

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