Charles Darwin Portrait ASCII Art
Julia Margaret Cameron's 1868 photograph of Charles Darwin in left profile: a bald crown, a long white beard and a dark coat over a white collar, against a dark background
Charles Darwin, 1868: the bald crown and the long white beard are the brightest shapes, so the profile reads first against the dark background. At 100 columns the beard becomes a field of light, broken characters and the dark coat merges with the background, leaving the white collar as a thin bright line. Photograph: Julia Margaret Cameron; ASCII conversion by this site.
Built Standard preview: 100 columns by 68 rows. Each result card lists its recipe. Select the text below to copy it without JavaScript.
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View bundled original file- Original source
- Wikimedia Commons copy of a historical portrait photograph. Evidence link Evidence: Exact file record and SHA-1 checked October 27, 2026 UTC. Downloaded unchanged: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Charles_Darwin_by_Julia_Margaret_Cameron%2C_c._1868_-_Original.jpg.
- File creator
- Photograph: Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), about 1868, carbon print made in 1875; Art Institute of Chicago, Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.881. Subject: Charles Darwin. This is the unrestored scan, not the separately uploaded digital restoration. Evidence link Evidence: Creator, date and source are taken from the exact Commons file record; the subject is not the copyright owner of the portrait..
- License or terms
- Public-domain portrait photograph. Evidence link Evidence: Julia Margaret Cameron died in 1879 and the photograph dates from about 1868, so the work is out of copyright under any life-plus-70 or pre-1931 rule; the exact record is tagged PD-old-auto-expired. The exact file record lists no additional restrictions. Credits are retained voluntarily. Use as an educational conversion example implies no endorsement by the subject, estate, photographer, institution or employer; this does not clear other portraits of the same person..
- Preparation
- The bundled file is the unchanged Commons original. Sharp applies orientation and sRGB/Lanczos3 sampling for thumbnails and the 100-column Standard preview. The ASCII is a lossy conversion by this site; no image regions are reconstructed. Evidence: scripts/build-example-previews.cjs; exact source and sampled-raster SHA-256 hashes in lib/generated/example-previews.json.
Owner review: PENDING. The exact-file portrait evidence is documented for owner review; it does not clear unrelated portraits, merchandise, or uses implying endorsement or affiliation.
Standard ASCII
Standard ASCII Art: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).
Character ramp: @%#*+=-:. (including a final space).
Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering: none.
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Edge detection
Edge Detection Only: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).
Edge Intensity: 1. Uses directional Unicode lines, not the selected character ramp.
Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering does not apply to this mode.
Open this recipe in the editor to keep this source, mode and settings. Browser resampling and fonts can differ from the built preview. Copy/TXT retain text; PNG uses black text on white at 12 px monospace, at least 1.2 line spacing and 20 px padding, independent of screen theme.
Character Optimization matches local glyph shapes in 4x8 cells at 8 px monospace. Compare texture with Standard; it is not a universal quality improvement, and your display font does not change the matching font.
Character Optimization
Character Optimization: 100 columns; rows = max(1, round(columns × source height / source width × 0.55)).
Character ramp: @%#*+=-:. (including a final space).
Brightness 100%, contrast 100%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering: none.
Open this recipe in the editor to keep this source, mode and settings. Browser resampling and fonts can differ from the built preview. Copy/TXT retain text; PNG uses black text on white at 12 px monospace, at least 1.2 line spacing and 20 px padding, independent of screen theme.
Mosaic comparisons use 15 symbol columns, not the 100 columns of the character modes. The detailed recipe increases contrast to 150%; choose Coarse mosaic in the editor for the original five-column style.
Detailed emoji mosaic
Emoji Mosaic: sampling width 60, Emoji Size 4, squares set, transparent-cell symbol "⬜". Final columns = ceil(width / Emoji Size); rows depend on source aspect ratio.
Brightness 100%, contrast 150%, saturation 100%, hue 0, sepia 0%, inversion off. Dithering does not apply to this mode.
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