chafa Command Examples

Image printing in the terminal. See also: catimg, pixterm. More information: https://hpjansson.org/chafa/man.

• Render an image directly in the terminal:

chafa {{path/to/file}}

• Render an image with 24-bit [c]olor:

chafa -c full {{path/to/file}}

• Improve image rendering with small color palettes using dithering:

chafa -c 16 --dither ordered {{path/to/file}}

• Render an image, making it appear pixelated:

chafa --symbols vhalf {{path/to/file}}

• Render a monochrome image with only braille characters:

chafa -c none --symbols braille {{path/to/file}}