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".
Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems (Linux, 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). There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Go. 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
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:
-fto select a font file. (font files are available here)-dto change the directory for fonts.-ccenters the output.-lleft-aligns the output.-rright-aligns the output.-tsets the output width to the terminal width.-wspecifies a custom output width.-kenables 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
__ __)
(,) | /, /), /),
| /| / (/_ __ _ _(/ _
|/ |/ _(_/(___(_/_)__(/_(_(__(_(_(_
/ |.-/
(_/
Banner (same as banner utility)
# # # # # # # # # ##### ###### ##### # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### # # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ## # # # # # ###### ##### # # #
Larry3d
__ __ __ __
/\ \ __/\ \ __/\ \ __ /\ \ __
\ \ \/\ \ \ \/\_\ \ \/'\ /\_\ _____ __ \_\ \/\_\ __
\ \ \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \, < \/\ \/\ '__`\ /'__`\ /'_` \/\ \ /'__`\
\ \ \_/ \_\ \ \ \ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \L\ \/\ __//\ \L\ \ \ \/\ \L\.\_
\ `\___x___/\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \,__/\ \____\ \___,_\ \_\ \__/.\_\
'\/__//__/ \/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\ \ \/ \/____/\/__,_ /\/_/\/__/\/_/
\ \_\
\/_/
