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It's so nice to see all this interest in ASCII art.

\o/ -huzzah

I still use Jave (http://www.jave.de/#description) occasionally, but it's beginning to show its age. It does have some nice features, though that asciiflow is missing: figlet font support and (gasp) circles!

Some other tools worth mentioning here among aficionados are PIC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_(markup_language) ) and of course cowsay. Someone already mentioned plantuml.