FIGlet (figlet)
FIGlet makes large letters out of ordinary text — the banner generator that has decorated READMEs, MOTDs, and build logs since 1991.
The name stands for Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters. A FIGlet font is a plain text file describing each character as a few lines of ASCII, and hundreds of them exist — slanted, bubbly, 3D, tiny — so the same word can be a headline or a whisper. It reads standard input, so it drops into scripts: the big project name at the top of a CI log or a login banner is usually FIGlet.
Type figlet hello in the demo and see for yourself, then figlet -c
to center it and figlist to see which fonts are installed. The VM is
private to your browser tab; nothing you type leaves it.
Commands to try
figlet hello | the banner |
figlet -c hello | centered |
figlet -w 40 hello | wrapped to forty columns |
figlet -k hello | with the letters spaced out (kerning off) |
figlist | the fonts installed on this machine |
echo hello | figlet | from a pipe, like in a build script |
Install FIGlet on your own machine
| Alpine | apk add figlet |
| Debian / Ubuntu | apt install figlet |
| Fedora | dnf install figlet |
| macOS (Homebrew) | brew install figlet |
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