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FOSS Advent Calendar - Door 4: Creating ASCII Art with FIGlet

Today we celebrate FIGlet, the tiny, legendary CLI tool that turns ordinary text into beautiful ASCII art.
Need a fun title for your scripts? A banner for a terminal presentation? A stylish way to label your screenshots? FIGlet has you covered.

It supports tons of fonts, works on every Unix-like system, and fits perfectly into any CLI workflow.
Pure retro charm, zero dependencies, maximum nerd energy.

Pro tip: combine it with toilet, lolcat, or pipes to create even wilder banners.
What’s your favorite FIGlet font?

Link: https://github.com/cmatsuoka/figlet

#FOSS #OpenSource #Linux #CLI #Terminal #ASCII #ASCIIArt #FIGlet #NerdContent #Fediverse #FreieSoftware #Konsole #Unix #ArtInTheTerminal #DevTools #Shell #CommandLine #AdventCalendar #TechNerds #RetroComputing #FOSSAdvent

Stephen Cross Nov 9, 2025

Having some fun creating ASCII banner text using "bit" and some C64 fonts I converted from Figlet fonts

https://github.com/superstarryeyes/bit/discussions/7

#figlet #C64 #bit #ascii #cli #tui

JesseBot Oct 26, 2025

If you're not aware, there's an alternative to figlet called toilet and it has a --gay flag you can use to print things in rainbow. I use this command to print a timer when I'm waiting for a job to run at a certain time and I'm impatient:

while true; do echo "$(date '+%D %T' | toilet -f term -F border --gay)"; sleep 1; done

Shoutout to Carla Schroder back in 2013 for this linux.com tutorial post

#linux #figlet #terminal

The Old Geek Diary Aug 9, 2025

#FIGlet 가지고 놀기 재밌다.

http://www.figlet.org/

FIGlet - hosted by PLiG

Text to ASCII art converter

Nundrum Oct 11, 2024

A fresh #bash banner. Some Unicode box-drawing characters plus #figlet style text makes it work. Positioning the output from the various programs was much more of an adventure that I was ready for.

Gordo Mario Sep 20, 2024

#ViernesDeEscritorio #FridayDesktop #DivendresDEscriptori
Laptop 2008
Distro: #Loc-OS 23
Init: #SystemV
WM: #Marco
Escritorio: #MATE
Terminal: #Terminator
Dock: #Plank
Shell: #Zsh + omz (Oh My Zsh)

Fetch --> #fastfetch (Personalizado)
Reloj (CLI) --> #BigTime
Sys. Mon. (CLI) --> #glances
Reproductor Audio (CLI) ---> #moc
Visuales (Espectro-CLI) --> #vis (cli-visualizer) + #cava
Visuales (Banner) --> #Figlet + #lolcat + #Boxes
Sys. Mon. (Desktop GUI)--> #conky

Mario "Gordo" G.Sep 20, 2024

#ViernesDeEscritorio #FridayDesktop #DivendresDEscriptori
Laptop 2008
Distro: #Loc-OS 23
Init: #SystemV
WM: #Marco
Escritorio: #MATE
Terminal: #Terminator
Dock: #Plank
Shell: #Zsh + omz (Oh My Zsh)

Fetch --> #fastfetch (Personalizado)
Reloj (CLI) --> #BigTime
Sys. Mon. (CLI) --> #glances
Reproductor Audio (CLI) ---> #moc
Visuales (Espectro-CLI) --> #vis (cli-visualizer) + #cava
Visuales (Banner) --> #Figlet + #lolcat + #Boxes
Sys. Mon. (Desktop GUI)--> #conky

Kir4ik52

Sep 19, 2024

Glyphion — это экспериментальный игровой движок на базе .NET, который позволяет создавать 2D и 3D игры в терминале с использованием ASCII-графики.

Он поддерживает рендеринг в консоли, текстуры из PPM файлов, интеграцию шрифтов Figlet, мультипоточность для повышения производительности и уровень детализации (LOD).

Движок совместим с Windows и macOS и предлагает встроенные примитивы для рисования различных форм.

src: https://github.com/andrewmd5/glyphion

#glyphion #dotnet #Figlet #opensource #foss #gameengine #engine #windows #macos #ascii #github

GitHub - andrewmd5/glyphion: an experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal

an experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal - GitHub - andrewmd5/glyphion: an experimental 2D/3D game engine for the terminal

GitHub

Gordo Mario Sep 13, 2024

#ViernesDeEscritorio #FridayDesktop #DivendresDEscriptori
Laptop 2008
Distro: #Loc-OS 23
Init: #SystemV
WM: #Marco
Escritorio: #MATE
Terminal: #Terminator
Dock: #Plank
Shell: #Zsh + omz (Oh My Zsh)

Fetch --> #fastfetch (Personalizado)
Reloj (CLI) --> #BigTime
Sys. Mon. (CLI) --> #glances
Reproductor Audio (CLI) ---> #moc
Visuales (Espectro-CLI) --> #vis (cli-visualizer) + #cava
Visuales (Banner) --> #Figlet + #lolcat + #Boxes
Sys. Mon. (Desktop GUI)--> #conky