# pwaller/pyfiglet

An implementation of figlet written in Python

Repository: https://github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pyfiglet
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ascii-art, figlet, python
Last push: 2026-08-02T21:51:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 31, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5746, "days_push": 31, "days_rel": 383, "gap_med": 74, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1580, forks 158 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:06.822954+00:00)

## What it is
pyfiglet is a pure-Python port of FIGlet that renders ASCII text as ASCII art using FIGlet fonts, including kerning/smushing support. It works as an embeddable Python library and also as a command-line tool.

## Use cases
- render ascii art banners from text in python
- generate figlet-style text without external binary
- add ascii art headers to cli output
- convert text to big ascii letters
- embed figlet rendering in a python app

## When to choose
- you need FIGlet-identical ASCII art output in pure Python
- you want to embed dynamic banner rendering without shelling out to the figlet binary

## When to avoid
- you need image or graphical text rendering rather than ASCII art
- you need fonts with unclear redistribution rights that were removed from the package

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: ascii-art, figlet, text-rendering, banner-text, command-line

## Member repositories
- pwaller/pyfiglet (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:06.822954+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 2026-08-30T03:56:37.506676+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:06.822954+00:00, sha 0082f550ef8a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pyfiglet/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:27:03.492011+00:00, sha ce5b5e94253f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.