cmatsuoka/figlet

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FIGlet is a classic C command-line program that renders ordinary text as large ASCII-art letters using a wide variety of fonts, with kerning and 'smushing' of characters. This repository is Claudio Matsuoka's maintained tree of FIGlet, including font files, utilities, and documentation.

Use cases

• generate ascii art banners from text
• make big letters in the terminal
• create ascii text signatures for email or motd
• render figlet fonts from the command line
• add decorative ascii headers to scripts and readme files

When to choose

• you need a small, fast, dependency-free tool to render ASCII-art text on Unix-like systems
• you want access to the large ecosystem of FIGlet .flf fonts
• you need a stable, classic tool for banners in scripts, MOTDs, or commit messages

When to avoid

• you need graphical or colored text rendering rather than monospaced ASCII output
• you want a modern library API to embed in an application rather than a standalone CLI
• you need Unicode-heavy or proportional-font rendering

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

cli developer-tools developer-tools windows cross-platform cli ascii-art figlet-fonts banner-text terminal text-editors command-line linux macos

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