ASCII Text for Elementor
A word drawn in characters, at rest.
ASCII Text adds one widget to Elementor. It takes a word, such as your name or brand, or a logo image, and draws it out of small characters that slowly change. When a visitor moves the cursor across it, the characters react and spring back. A small pill with a scrolling label, “Contact Us” by default, follows the cursor, and a click sends a burst through the word before the link opens.
It works well as a full-width site footer.
ASCII Text for Elementor is an independent, free plugin. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Elementor Ltd. Elementor is a trademark of Elementor Ltd.
Features
- Any word, up to four lines, or a logo image (PNG or SVG), with an optional link
- Four hover effects: scatter, magnet, ripple and spotlight
- Entrance animation when the widget scrolls into view: assemble or sweep
- Ripple on tap for touch screens, and an optional shake while scrolling
- Character set presets (binary, symbols, shading, blocks, matrix) or your own characters
- Shading and Blocks pick characters by brightness, so solid areas get dense characters
- Solid or two-color gradient characters
- Pick the font the word is shaped from and the font of the characters, using Elementor’s font picker
- Density per device, change speed, hover strength, click burst and idle drift
- Cursor label with an optional icon, its own font, colors, width and scroll speed
- The text is also printed as a heading (or other tag you choose) for search engines and screen readers
- Shows the word or image as plain content if JavaScript does not run
- Pauses while off screen, and keeps still for visitors who prefer reduced motion
- Excludes itself from “delay JavaScript” in WP Rocket, Perfmatters and LiteSpeed Cache
- No settings page, no database tables, no tracking, no requests to outside services
How it works
The word or image is drawn into an off-screen canvas and measured on a character grid. Every grid cell that the shape covers becomes a character whose brightness follows how much of the cell is covered. Each cell changes its character on its own slow rhythm. Moving the cursor drags nearby characters along its path, and springs pull them home.