# cmatsuoka/figlet

Claudio's FIGlet tree

Repository: https://github.com/cmatsuoka/figlet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/figlet
Homepage: http://www.figlet.org
Language: C
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-09-13T12:09:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5714, "days_push": 1085, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1648, forks 144 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:16.556497+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: maintenance
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli
- tags: ascii-art, figlet-fonts, banner-text, terminal, text-editors, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- cmatsuoka/figlet (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.556497+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:45:12.503531+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cmatsuoka/figlet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:16.556497+00:00, sha e7462e7722d0)
  - homepage: http://www.figlet.org (fetched 2026-08-29T11:18:22.304800+00:00, sha 28a8d987f17a)
  - site_page: https://www.figlet.org/faq.html (fetched 2026-08-29T11:18:22.314179+00:00, sha 60fbf0316ba2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.