FIGlet


FIGlet is a computer program that generates text banners, in a variety of typefaces, composed of letters made up of conglomerations of smaller ASCII characters. The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".
Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems distributions, but it has been ported to other platforms as well. The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BeOS, Mac, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, as well as a reimplementation in Perl. There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Go. DuckDuckgo also has their own Figlet version, to be able to use it you need to type "Figlet " and you can easily Copy & Paste everywhere
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Behavior

FIGlet can read from standard input or accept a message as part of the command line. It prints to standard output. Some common arguments are:-f to select a font file. -d to change the directory for fonts.-c centers the output.-l left-aligns the output.-r right-aligns the output.-t sets the output width to the terminal width.-w specifies a custom output width.-k enables kerning, printing each letter of the message individually, instead of merged into the adjacent letters.

Sample usage

An example of output generated by FIGlet is shown below.

$ figlet 7MO
_____ __ __ ___
/ /| |\/| | | | |
/ / | | | | |_| |
/_/ |_| |_|\___/


The following command:
$ figlet -ct -f roman Wikipedia
generates this output:

oooooo oooooo oooo o8o oooo o8o .o8 o8o 
 `888. `888. .8' `"' `888 `"' "888 `"' 
 `888. .8888. .8' oooo 888 oooo oooo oo.ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo888 oooo .oooo. 
 `888 .8'`888..8' `888 888.8P' `888 888' `88b d88' `88b d88' `888 `888 `P )88b 
 `888.8' `888.8' 888 888888. 888 888 888 888ooo888 888 888 888 .oP"888 
 `888' `888' 888 888 `88b. 888 888 888 888 .o 888 888 888 d8( 888 
 `8' `8' o888o o888o o888o o888o 888bod8P' `Y8bod8P' `Y8bod88P" o888o `Y888""8o 
  888  
  o888o

The -ct options centers the text and makes it take up the full width of the terminal. The -f roman option specifies the 'roman' font file.

Font examples

Invita


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Banner (same as banner">Banner (Unix)">banner utility)


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  2.  # # # # # # ##### ###### ##### # ## 
  3.  # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 
  4.  # # # #### # # # ##### # # # # # 
  5.  # # # # # # ##### # # # # ###### 
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 ## ## # # # # # ###### ##### # # #

Larry3d


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/\ \ __/\ \ __/\ \ __ /\ \ __ 
\ \ \/\ \ \ \/\_\ \ \/'\ /\_\ _____ __ \_\ \/\_\ __ 
 \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \, < \/\ \/\ '__`\ /'__`\ /'_` \/\ \ /'__`\ 
 \ \ \_/ \_\ \ \ \ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \L\ \/\ __//\ \L\ \ \ \/\ \L\.\_ 
 \ `\___x___/\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \,__/\ \____\ \___,_\ \_\ \__/.\_\
 '\/__//__/ \/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\ \ \/ \/____/\/__,_ /\/_/\/__/\/_/
  \ \_\ 
  \/_/

FIGlet-based ASCII typefaces

Eric Olson's 2002 FIG typeface family is a series of OpenType fonts similar to the output of FIGlet.
TOIlet seeks to extend FIGlet to use colour text. FIGlet supports TOIlet fonts as of version 2.2.4.