Text Art

Since we can’t draw images in the terminal, we can use text art to create ASCII art. Text art is a form of drawing that uses characters to create images. In C++, we can create text art by printing characters in a specific pattern.

Here are the two sites I recommend for generating text art:

• ASCII Art Archive’s Image to ASCII Art Converter - This tool allows you to convert images to ASCII art.
• Picsart’s Text Art Generator - This tool allows you to generate text art from text using different fonts and styles.

Let’s say for example, with the Picsart’s Text Art Generator, We convert the word “NEUST” to text art with the “Standard text art” style, we would get the following:

 _   _ _____ _   _ ____ _____
| \ | | ____| | | / ___|_   _|
|  \| |  _| | | | \___ \ | |
| |\  | |___| |_| |___) || |
|_| \_|_____|\___/|____/ |_|

If we want to print this text art in C++, we will need to fix some of the characters, specifically the backslashes. Since backslashes are escape characters in C++, we need to escape them by adding another backslash before them. Here is the corrected text art:

So the corrected text art would look like this:

 _   _ _____ _   _ ____ _____
| \\ | | ____| | | / ___|_   _|
|  \\| |  _| | | | \\___ \\ | |
| |\\  | |___| |_| |___) || |
|_| \\_|_____|\\___/|____/ |_|

Then we will need to print this text art in C++ using the cout object. Here is an example of how to print the text art in C++:

main.cpp

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main() {
    cout << " _   _ _____ _   _ ____ _____" << endl
         << "| \\ | | ____| | | / ___|_   _|" << endl
         << "|  \\| |  _| | | | \\___ \\ | |" << endl
         << "| |\\  | |___| |_| |___) || |" << endl
         << "|_| \\_|_____|\\___/|____/ |_|" << endl;

    return 0;
}

The output of the program will be:

 _   _ _____ _   _ ____ _____
| \ | | ____| | | / ___|_   _|
|  \| |  _| | | | \___ \ | |
| |\  | |___| |_| |___) || |
|_| \_|_____|\___/|____/ |_|