--- title: Responsive ASCII Arts using text-fit | daily.dev description: A new CSS property called text-fit makes it straightforward to create responsive ASCII art that scales with its container. The technique leverages this modern... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-ascii-arts-using-text-fit-i5qji5wm8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Responsive ASCII Arts using text-fit | daily.dev og:description: A new CSS property called text-fit makes it straightforward to create responsive ASCII art that scales with its container. The technique leverages this modern... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-ascii-arts-using-text-fit-i5qji5wm8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/I5QJI5Wm8.png og:image:alt: Responsive ASCII Arts using text-fit og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Responsive ASCII Arts using text-fit **[CSS Tip](https://daily.dev/sources/csstip)** · 1 min read · 6 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A new CSS property called text-fit makes it straightforward to create responsive ASCII art that scales with its container. The technique leverages this modern CSS feature to handle sizing automatically without JavaScript. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 0 upvotes > No JavaScript for responsive ASCII art. Completely unnecessary, I am obviously going to try it 😬 haha ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Responsive Letter Spacing](https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-letter-spacing-zsikazax5) · Cloud Four · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Responsive and Fluid Typography with Baseline CSS Features](https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-and-fluid-typography-with-baseline-css-features-rnoepawxs) · OddBird · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Revealing Text With CSS letter-spacing](https://daily.dev/posts/revealing-text-with-css-letter-spacing-axurb0srb) · CSS-Tricks · 31 upvotes · 1 comments - [Shrink-wrap Text with \`position-anchor\`](https://daily.dev/posts/shrink-wrap-text-with-position-anchor--rfpl54n7t) · CodePen · 3 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#ui-design](https://daily.dev/tags/ui-design) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-ascii-arts-using-text-fit-i5qji5wm8) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Responsive ASCII Arts using text-fit","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-ascii-arts-using-text-fit-i5qji5wm8","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/responsive-ascii-arts-using-text-fit-i5qji5wm8"},"datePublished":"2026-07-21T10:08:08.967Z","dateModified":"2026-09-14T08:45:48.857Z","description":"A new CSS property called text-fit makes it straightforward to create responsive ASCII art that scales with its container. 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