Durdraw - ANSI, ASCII and Unicode Art Animation Studio for Linux

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About

Durdraw is an ASCII, Unicode and ANSI art editor for UNIX-like systems (Linux, macOS, etc). It runs in modern Utf-8 terminals and supports frame-based animation, custom themes, 256 and 16 color modes, terminal mouse input, DOS ANSI art viewing, CP437 and Unicode mixing and conversion, HTML output, mIRC color output, and other interesting features.

Durdraw is heavily inspired by classic ANSI editing software for MS-DOS and Windows, such as TheDraw, Aciddraw and Pablodraw, but with a modern Unix twist.

Durdraw 0.28 editing 256-color Animated Unicode ANSI

You can watch a random Durdraw animation in your telnet client of choice (IBM-PC font and colors recommended) by connecting to cmang.org on port 1337, or possibly by clicking here.

Download

You can download the latest version of Durdraw from Github, or from your OS package repositories.

Optional:

Animated GIF and PNG export requires Ansilove

Durfetch requires Neofetch

Reviews

"Durdraw is ... immensely fun and surprisingly powerful" -- Linux Magazine
"A big win" -- The Lunduke Journal
"Very cool ... Having the ability to create old-school banners and animations on a modern terminal is honestly fantastic." -- Linux Game Cast
"Durdraw is an ASCII art editor for the 21st century!" -- Late Night Linux
"Durdraw is great fun ... a welcome diversion from our everyday mundane tasks." -- LinuxLinks
"Durdraw is a project to breathe life into static ASCII art." -- Linux Voice Magazine
"Prepare to enter the 4th dimension of ANSI art ... Push ANSI art to its limits" -- Le site de Korben (FR->EN Translation)
"Durdraw has a wide range of unique applications ... It can shine in hackathons, programming conferences, or any occasion that requires a display of technical beauty." -- Denise Pei (CN->EN Translation)

Gallery

Animated ASCII art in a transparent terminal

Durdraw 0.15 editing Unicode ANSI art in xfce4-terminal

Durdraw 0.17 editing 256 color Unicode art

Help screen, exported as a .GIF in the IBM-PC font

Durdraw running on a handheld Game Console

Tutorials

Donate

Durdraw is a passion project, and is given away for free with source code under a BSD 3-Clause License. Many hours of unpaid work have gone into creating this softwre.

If you find Durdraw useful, please consider making a financial contribution.

Contributions help cover essential costs like development time, domain registration, and web hosting.

You can donate to this project using any of these platforms:

Paypal

Buymeacoffee

Patreon

Other ways to support Durdraw include reporting bugs, providing feedback, and contributing code. Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md file for information and guidelines.

If you need assistance or have questions about Durdraw, feel free to reach out to us on GitHub. We're happy to help!