Studio ASCII Reveal

ASCII Reveal redraws any photo in ink characters whose density follows its darkness: hair and features dense, skin sparse. A few characters shimmer at rest. Under the cursor a soft round window shows the real photo, and the characters around its edge scramble.

It's built for speed. The character field is drawn once and copied each frame, and it sleeps while off screen.

What's inside

• Four shapes: full frame, oval, head-and-shoulders silhouette, or follow a cut-out PNG's transparency

• Your own character ramp, ink colour, size, weight and contrast; invert for light-on-dark

• Cursor reveal with scramble edge; optional window-wide tracking so text over it doesn't block the hover

• Idle shimmer

• Canvas preview in the Framer editor; graceful fallback if an image can't be read

• Accessible image role and alt text; respects Reduce Motion

Works with: Framer (code component). Fully customisable in the properties panel; respects Reduce Motion; no external libraries.

Part of the STUDIO day kit: 14 Framer components, each with a live demo. After checkout you get the install link, and it always points at the latest version.