DUdunefox·Aug 21, 2026Submission
3 points · Open discussionJuliaPlots
UnicodePlots.jl
Julia2016–2026
JuliaPlots / UnicodePlots.jl
UnicodePlots.jl
Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal
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What it is
Unicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal
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Very cool. Reminds me of one of my favorite Julia packages: https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl It uses Braille characters as well as others to render all kinds of plots…
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
16 sourcesLooking forward to using this[0] with Pluto instead of repl! (They just look so cool)
[0]: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl
In Pluto.jl 1.0 release – reactive notebook for JuliaPair this with Unicode plots[0] and you're set!
[0]: https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl
In Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminalShow HN: Incplot – CLI tool for drawing plots in the terminal using Unicode
Hello HN,
I have been building incplot, a CLI tool for drawing plots in the terminal using unicode characters.
It is intended to be the most convenient way to quickly visualize small to moderately sized data right inside the terminal.
It is aiming to be useful especially within more or less general terminal workflow for visualizing output of other CLI tools or shell commands
What it does:
- Draws great looking plots 'out of the box'
- Automatically infers what should be drawn and how from the data passed into it (optional override with command line arguments)
- Accepts piped in data in JSON, JSON Lines, NDJSON, CSV, TSV
- Reasonable and actually useful error messages
- Is cross-platform on mainstream systems (Windows, Linux, MacOS)
The tool was inspired by other solutions, notably (and transitively many others that came before):
https://g
Read the rest
ithub.com/red-data-tools/YouPlot
https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl
What it does differently than existing solutions:
- Requires less input from the user (due to automatic inference and sensible defaults)
- It doesn't let the user customize the look of the plots drawn
- It is fast (notably because it is all C++ native code)
- Lots of small QOL features baked in that (in the author's opinion) make the result look better by default
On a personal note, I created this tool to learn modern day C++ (notably C++20 and C++23), its tooling and its whole ecosystem.
There may be rough edges here and there (in fact there almost certainly are). However, the tool is not super early stage and it has been tested moderately.
I'd love some feedback.
I'm pretty sure I've seen such a thing (my first reaction was to check if this was the same thing I'd seen before and it wasn't), but I'm forgetting what language it was for. Given my work and interests it probably was R, but might have been Julia, Python, or Ocaml.
After searching I think it might have been this:
https://github.com/JuliaPlots/UnicodePlots.jl
In A command line tool that draw plots on the terminalI would rather use this: https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl along with a little scripting.
In Show HN: Simple tool for creating command-line bar chartsNice!, in Julia there is a library to do plots with a similar technique, https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
In Show HN: A dot matrix rendered using Braille charactershttps://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl this seems pretty popular in Julia, inspired by Drawille mentioned in the article.
In Creep – a pretty sweet 4px wide pixel fontAnd Julia has UnicodePlots (https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl).
In Plotext – Python Plotting on the TerminalI am a big fan of https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl . It is unexpected how useful these tools can be to track the evolution of numerical experiments/developments right on the terminal.
In Nbterm: Jupyter Notebooks in the TerminalUnicode-based scientific plotting for working in the terminal
136 points · Open discussionVery cool. Reminds me of one of my favorite Julia packages:
https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
It uses Braille characters as well as others to render all kinds of plots in a text terminal. So handy sometimes, and so reliable.
In Show HN: Draw “text-mode” diagrams using Braille charactersThere is a very cool Julia library: https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
In ROSshow: ASCII art visualizations for robot sensor dataA similar idea is used in UnicodePlots [1], a Julia terminal plotting library. This kind of tools is very useful when you are connected to some HPC cluster and want to have a quick look at the contents of data files.
Of course, the approach is quite different, as Termgraph seems a stand-alone program, while UnicodePlots is a library.
[1] https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl
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