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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 (see ASCII art). The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".[1]

Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems (Linux,[2] BSD, etc.) 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 (Text::FIGlet[3]).[4] There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java[5] (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript,[6] PHP,[7][8] Python,[9] and Go.[10] DuckDuckgo also has their own Figlet version, to be able to use it you need to type "Figlet [text]" and you can easily Copy & Paste everywhere[11]

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 (options) are:

  • -f to select a font file. (font files are available here)
  • -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. 

[user@hostname ~]$ figlet 7MO
 _____ __  __  ___  
|___  |  \/  |/ _ \ 
   / /| |\/| | | | |
  / / | |  | | |_| |
 /_/  |_|  |_|\___/

The following command: 

[user@hostname ~]$ 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

 __       __)                          
(, )  |  /  , /)   ,           /) ,    
   | /| /    (/_    __    _  _(/    _  
   |/ |/  _(_/(___(_/_)__(/_(_(__(_(_(_
   /  |          .-/                   
                (_/                    
                                       


#     #                                          
#  #  # # #    # # #####  ###### #####  #   ##   
#  #  # # #   #  # #    # #      #    # #  #  #  
#  #  # # ####   # #    # #####  #    # # #    # 
#  #  # # #  #   # #####  #      #    # # ###### 
#  #  # # #   #  # #      #      #    # # #    # 
 ## ##  # #    # # #      ###### #####  # #    #

Larry3d

 __      __      __                             __                  
/\ \  __/\ \  __/\ \      __                   /\ \  __             
\ \ \/\ \ \ \/\_\ \ \/'\ /\_\  _____      __   \_\ \/\_\     __     
 \ \ \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \ , < \/\ \/\ '__`\  /'__`\ /'_` \/\ \  /'__`\   
  \ \ \_/ \_\ \ \ \ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \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.[12] FIGlet supports TOIlet fonts as of version 2.2.4.

See also

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References

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External links

  1. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  2. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  3. ↑ Text::FIGlet
  4. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  5. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  6. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  7. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
  8. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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  10. ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
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