Typewriter FX Photo Filter: Images to vintage ASCII Art
Typewriter FX Photo Filter transforms your favorite portraits into captivating typographical mosaics. Each character is meticulously sourced from real typewriters from the 1930s to 1980s, preserving their vintage vibe. Typewriter FX offers eleven of these distinctive typefaces to personalize your creations, or use eight system fonts to make ASCII art from text. Fine-tune the mood with adjustable brightness and capture all the personality of your loved ones or pets. Typewriter FX prioritizes your privacy—the lightning-fast conversion runs entirely on your device, accessing one photo at a time. Family and friends can enjoy the unique keepsakes you make when you install Typewriter FX today!
Turn your photos into nostalgic typographical art!Transform your favorite portraits into entrancing, retro mosaics of characters meticulously captured from real vintage typewriters from the 1930s to 1980s.
Typewriter FX is a photo filter app unlike any other...
Adjustable Ambiance: Fine-tune the final result with a light or dark effect to match your mood.
Beyond Courier & Menlo: When you make a printout or image, you can choose from 11 authentic, distinctive typefaces.
Authentic Vintage Typewriters: Each character is captured from real typewriters, preserving their imperfections and quirks.
Perfect for Portraits: Typewriter FX reveals the personality of your pets and loved ones in a tasteful, nostalgic way.
Protects Your Privacy: Lightning-fast converter runs completely on your iPhone or iPad and needs access to only one photo at a time.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is “typewriter art,” and how does Typewriter FX create it?
Typewriter FX turns your photos into a mosaic of characters that looks like a normal monochrome print from across the room, but up close, it is magically made up of familiar typewritten characters.
There are many forms of typewriter art. Some artists make detailed works by hand without sticking to the grid. Some use color. Some use large-format typewriters. At this time, Typewriter FX Photo Filter is grid-based and monochrome, with the option of changing the background tint for shared images.
Are the typefaces in Typewriter FX actually authentic?
Yes, they are scans of actual pages I typed myself on vintage manual and daisywheel typewriters in my collection. Multiple Royal Quiet de Luxe models in elite and pica, Smith Corona and Royal daisywheels, a Corona Four typewriter from 1930, and a Galaxie XII from the 1970s.
What can I use Typewriter FX’s printed output for?
You can use Typewriter FX to create keepsakes, like framing a printout. Use colored or textured paper in your printer for extra polish. It's a tasteful, vintage look suitable for birthdays, anniversaries or memorials.
Prints from Typewriter FX are also great for scrapbooking, collages, or journals. You can unify the look of photos taken with different cameras at different times.
Typewriter FX automatically formats for letter or A4 and prints directly to Wi-Fi printers. If you want another size, you can create a PDF from the print dialog for further manipulation. Or you can export as text and enjoy unlimited flexibility.
The prints look best when they can be seen at a distance and up close to maximize the “gestalt” effect.
Is Typewriter FX an ASCII converter?
By using the text output format, Typewriter FX will share rich text using system fonts which you can paste into an email message or word processing document and get an ASCII representation of your photo. It’s not a line drawing, but a halftone.
But ASCII conversion isn’t the only feature. The print and image output formats can include samples of real vintage typefaces as well.
About Adducive
Adducive founder Brian Krause has decades of experience developing for Apple platforms and mobile users that precede even the iPhone. He is the solo designer and developer behind the vintage photo filter app Typewriter FX and the unique 3D word games Lexiblox and Lexatetrahedra. Each is a celebration of design and typography.
