A python package for creating minimal ASCII flow charts and diagrams
This is a project to help engineers, researchers, project managers, and others create beautiful, retro-looking ASCII flow diagrams. ASCII diagrams are pretty, and harken back to the mid-20th century technical documentation. They also have real advantages:
1) They work wonderfully in the age of agentic AI, which can easily read and parse these small representations. 2) ASCII diagrams can live inline with: PRs, Markdown files, Slack threads, etc. 3) ASCII diagrams optimize for thinking speed, not presentation quality. It encourages iteration and deletion instead of premature refinement. 4) Minimalist diagrams reduce visual noise (although they do still look retro and pretty) 5) They're tool agnostic and can be rendered anywhere


The GitHub repository can be found here.