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, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, and Windows platforms, as well as a reimplementation in Perl. There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and Go. FIGlet was featured as a Debian Package of the Day in 2007.

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:
An example of output generated by FIGlet is shown below.

$ figlet Wikipedia
__ ___ _ _ _ _
\ \ / | __ __ ___ __| __ _
\ \ /\ / /| | |/ / | '_ \ / _ \/ _` | |/ _` |
\ V V / | | <| | |_) | __/ 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.

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.