Chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal.

Chafa packages are available for many Linux distributions, including Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo and Ubuntu. There is a native build for Microsoft Windows, and thanks to Brew and MacPorts, it is also available for MacOS X. Check your software distribution's repositories, or look for it on repology.org.

Works with most modern and classic terminals and terminal emulators. Documented, stable C API. Fast & lean: SIMD optimized, multithreaded. Suitable for terminal graphics, ANSI art composition and even black & white print. Some of the features are discussed in a series of blog posts: Introducing Chafa The worst ANSI art renderer, except for all ...

Dec 17, 2024 · Chafa is a powerful tool designed to convert images into a format that can be displayed directly in the terminal. It supports a range of graphics formats and provides several options to customize the appearance of images.

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Sep 16, 2021 · Improvements to the Chafa terminal graphics package: Kitty and iTerm2 protocols, newly supported terminals, new Unicode symbols, and more.

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Jun 22, 2022 · This review looks at a third terminal-based image viewer that supports the Kitty Graphics Protocol. It’s named Chafa, shorthand for Character Art Facsimile. This is an image-to-text converter. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language. Chafa lets you view images as well as animated GIFs.

Chafa ===== Chafa is a command-line utility that converts image data, including animated GIFs, into graphics formats or ANSI/Unicode character art suitable for display in a terminal. It has …

chafa is a utility that converts all kinds of images, including animated GIFs, into (potentially animated) ANSI/Unicode character output that can be displayed in a terminal.