Re: [PLUG] Program for Large ASCII Fonts

["Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

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The program figlet will do what you need.

I love that if it's not installed (on Ubuntu) it prompts you
to install either 'figlet' or 'toilet'

toilet has more options than figlet.  I install both.

banner works too in a simpler manner.

Here are my notes:

  banner banner

   #####     ##    #    #  #    #  ######  #####
   #    #   #  #   ##   #  ##   #  #       #    #
   #####   #    #  # #  #  # #  #  #####   #    #
   #    #  ######  #  # #  #  # #  #       #####
   #    #  #    #  #   ##  #   ##  #       #   #
   #####   #    #  #    #  #    #  ######  #    #

  figlet has more...

  figlet -w 100 When In The Course...
  __        ___                  ___         _____ _             ____
  \ \      / / |__   ___ _ __   |_ _|_ __   |_   _| |__   ___   / ___|___  _   _ _ __ ___  ___
   \ \ /\ / /| '_ \ / _ \ '_ \   | || '_ \    | | | '_ \ / _ \ | |   / _ \| | | | '__/ __|/ _ \
    \ V  V / | | | |  __/ | | |  | || | | |   | | | | | |  __/ | |__| (_) | |_| | |  \__ \  __/_ _ _
     \_/\_/  |_| |_|\___|_| |_| |___|_| |_|   |_| |_| |_|\___|  \____\___/ \__,_|_|  |___/\___(_|_|_)

  toilet has even more:
   (options for figlet and toilet are in /usr/share/figlet)

  echo "When In The Course..." |toilet -w120 -f term -f small

  __      ___               ___        _____ _           ___
  \ \    / / |_  ___ _ _   |_ _|_ _   |_   _| |_  ___   / __|___ _  _ _ _ ___ ___
   \ \/\/ /| ' \/ -_) ' \   | || ' \    | | | ' \/ -_) | (__/ _ \ || | '_(_-</ -_)_ _ _
    \_/\_/ |_||_\___|_||_| |___|_||_|   |_| |_||_\___|  \___\___/\_,_|_| /__/\___(_|_|_)


  echo "When In The Course..." |toilet -w120 -f term -f mini
                       ___       ___           _
  \    / |_   _  ._     |  ._     | |_   _    /   _      ._ _  _
   \/\/  | | (/_ | |   _|_ | |    | | | (/_   \_ (_) |_| | _> (/_ o o o

  eric@ursa:~$ echo "When In The Course..." |toilet -w120 -f term -f script
   _            _                      _            ______ _             ___
  (_|   |   |_/| |                    | |          (_) |  | |           / (_)
    |   |   |  | |     _   _  _       | | _  _         |  | |     _    |      __
    |   |   |  |/ \   |/  / |/ |    _ |/ / |/ |      _ |  |/ \   |/    |     /  \_
     \_/ \_/   |   |_/|__/  |  |_/  \_/\/  |  |_/   (_/   |   |_/|__/   \___/\__/


Yeah, too much time on my hands a while ago :-)

Eric


On 07/27/2013 04:06 PM, Casey Bralla wrote:
> Anybody know of a FOSS program that will create a large ASCII banner from a text string?
> 
> I'm looking for a program that would make something like this:
> 
> 
> __  __ _____ _   _     _    _   _  ____ |  \/  |_   _| | | |   | |  | | | |/ ___| | |\/| | | | | | | |   | |  | | | | |  _ | |  | | | | | |_| |   | |__| |_| | |_| | |_|  |_| |_|  \___/    |_____\___/ \____|
> 
> (This only looks good with a fixed-width font)
> 
> I've googled it, but am probably using the wrong search string.
> 
> 

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