Try more candidate chars
- how about?
❚e.g.❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚❚instead of*********** - how about?
█e.g.██████████instead of***********
Node.js
- npm ascii-horizontal-barchart, source https://github.com/morishin/ascii-horizontal-barchart/blob/master/src/chart.js
Python
- py-ascii-graph https://pypi.org/project/ascii_graph/
- https://alexwlchan.net/2018/05/ascii-bar-charts/
Ruby