Software:FIGlet
| Original author(s) | Glenn Chappell, Ian Chai |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1991 (as "newban") / 1993 (figlet 2.0)[1] |
| Stable release | 2.2.5[2]
/ May 2012 |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Unix-like |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | Typesetting |
| License | New BSD[3] |
| Website | www |
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 (see ASCII art). The name derives from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".[4]
Being free software, FIGlet is commonly included as part of many Unix-like operating systems (Linux,[5] BSD, etc.) 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, Mac, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, and Microsoft Windows, as well as a reimplementation in Perl (Text::FIGlet[6]).[7] There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java[8] (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript,[9] PHP,[10][11] Python,[12] and Go.[13]
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 (options) are:
-fto select a font file. (font files are available here)-dto change the directory for fonts.-ccenters the output.-lleft-aligns the output.-rright-aligns the output.-tsets the output width to the terminal width.-wspecifies a custom output width.-kenables kerning, printing each letter of the message individually, instead of merged into the adjacent letters.
Sample usage
An example of output generated by FIGlet is shown below.
[user@hostname ~]$ figlet Wikipedia
__ ___ _ _ _ _
\ \ / (_) | _(_)_ __ ___ __| (_) __ _
\ \ /\ / /| | |/ / | '_ \ / _ \/ _` | |/ _` |
\ V V / | | <| | |_) | __/ (_| | | (_| |
\_/\_/ |_|_|\_\_| .__/ \___|\__,_|_|\__,_|
|_|
The following command:
[user@hostname ~]$ figlet -ct -f roman Wikipedia
generates this output:
oooooo oooooo oooo o8o oooo o8o .o8 o8o
`888. `888. .8' `"' `888 `"' "888 `"'
`888. .8888. .8' oooo 888 oooo oooo oo.ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo888 oooo .oooo.
`888 .8'`888. .8' `888 888 .8P' `888 888' `88b d88' `88b d88' `888 `888 `P )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.
Font examples
Invita
__ __)
(, ) | / , /) , /) ,
| /| / (/_ __ _ _(/ _
|/ |/ _(_/(___(_/_)__(/_(_(__(_(_(_
/ | .-/
(_/
Banner (same as banner utility)
# # # # # # # # # ##### ###### ##### # ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # #### # # # ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # ##### # # # # ###### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ## # # # # # ###### ##### # # #
Larry3d
__ __ __ __
/\ \ __/\ \ __/\ \ __ /\ \ __
\ \ \/\ \ \ \/\_\ \ \/'\ /\_\ _____ __ \_\ \/\_\ __
\ \ \ \ \ \ \/\ \ \ , < \/\ \/\ '__`\ /'__`\ /'_` \/\ \ /'__`\
\ \ \_/ \_\ \ \ \ \ \\`\\ \ \ \ \L\ \/\ __//\ \L\ \ \ \/\ \L\.\_
\ `\___x___/\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \_\ \ ,__/\ \____\ \___,_\ \_\ \__/.\_\
'\/__//__/ \/_/\/_/\/_/\/_/\ \ \/ \/____/\/__,_ /\/_/\/__/\/_/
\ \_\
\/_/
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.[14] FIGlet supports TOIlet fonts as of version 2.2.4.
See also
References
- ↑ Chappell, Glen (1995). ""Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet". http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html.
- ↑ "FIGLet home page". http://www.figlet.org.
- ↑ ""Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet". http://www.figlet.org/figlet_history.html.
- ↑ "FIGlet FAQ". http://www.figlet.org/faq.html.
- ↑ Stutz, Michael (2001). "Text Fonts". The Linux Cookbook. No Starch Press. ISBN 1-886411-48-4. http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_20.html#SEC321. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
- ↑ Text::FIGlet
- ↑ "Official FIGlet FTP site". http://ftp.figlet.org/pub/figlet/program/.
- ↑ Rigaut, Benoît (1996). "Figlet Java". http://www.rigaut.com/benoit/CERN/FigletJava/.
- ↑ Gillespie, Pat (2006). "TAAG". http://patorjk.com/software/taag/.
- ↑ Baltes, Lucas. "PHP Figlet". http://www.phpclasses.org/phpfiglet.
- ↑ "Zend Framework – Zend_Text_Figlet Component". http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.text.html#zend.text.figlet.
- ↑ Jones, Christopher (2007). "pyfiglet". https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfiglet/.
- ↑ Sampson, Luke (13 December 2018). "GitHub - lukesampson/figlet: Figlet in Go.". https://github.com/lukesampson/figlet.
- ↑ "TOIlet". http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet.
External links
- FIGfont Documentation version 2 FIGfont and FIGdriver Standard
- PHP library at PHP
- Online FIGlet ASCII art generators
- Text Art Figlet Generator at TextArt.io
- TAAG (Text Ascii Art Generator) at Pat or JK
- ASCII signature at Julius Kammerl
- ASCII generator at Network Science
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