## what it is
The shadcn/ui components — buttons, dialogs, menus, tables, forms — rebuilt to look like they were typed into a terminal. No CSS borders, rounded corners or shadows: a frame is a row of +----+ above and below and a column of | down each side, drawn with real characters on the same grid as the text inside.
Behavior stays ordinary and accessible: every component wraps a Base UI primitive, so keyboard navigation, focus, portals and ARIA come for free. ascii only decides what it looks like.
## how it's built
| one grid | Everything is measured in characters and lines — ch across, lh down — so borders and text always line up. |
| frames are text | Borders are strings or repeated glyphs clipped to width. They inherit color like text. |
| glyphs are a theme | The frame characters come from one context — swap + - | for = ‖ # or ~ ( ) and every component redraws. |
| palettes | Fourteen color schemes (seven dark, seven light), each an installable registry item on the usual shadcn tokens. |
| registry | Components and themes ship from a self-hosted shadcn registry. shadcn add copies the source into your project. |
## what's inside
- 60 components — the full shadcn/ui catalogue plus a few extras (Bubble, Marker, Message, Questionnaire, Attachment).
- Frame primitives (
AsciiBox,AsciiRule,AsciiSide…) for drawing your own panels on the grid. - Themes: palettes, any Google mono font and the glyph set — previewed on the styling page.