FIGlet

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 http://www.figlet.org

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, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, and Windows platforms, as well as a reimplementation in Perl (Text::FIGlet).[6] There are third-party reimplementations of FIGlet in Java[7] (including one embedded in the JavE ASCII art editor), JavaScript,[8] PHP[9][10] and Python.[11] FIGlet was featured as a Debian Package of the Day in 2007.[12]

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:

Sample usage

An example of output generated by FIGlet is shown below.

$ figlet Wikipedia
__        ___ _    _                _ _       
\ \      / (_) | _(_)_ __   ___  __| (_) __ _ 
 \ \ /\ / /| | |/ / | '_ \ / _ \/ _` | |/ _` |
  \ V  V / | |   <| | |_) |  __/ (_| | | (_| |
   \_/\_/  |_|_|\_\_| .__/ \___|\__,_|_|\__,_|
                    |_|

The following code:

$ 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.

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.[13] FIGlet supports TOIlet fonts as of version 2.2.4.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Chappell, Glen (1995). ""Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet". Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  2. ↑ "FIGLet home page". Retrieved 2012-06-18.
  3. ↑ ""Why does FIGlet exist?" a history of FIGlet". Retrieved 2011-01-15.
  4. ↑ "FIGlet FAQ". Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  5. ↑ Stutz, Michael (2001). "Text Fonts". The Linux Cookbook. No Starch Press. ISBN 1-886411-48-4. Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  6. ↑ "Official FIGlet FTP site". Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  7. ↑ Rigaut, Benoît (1996). "Figlet Java". Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  8. ↑ Gillespie, Pat (2006). "TAAG". Retrieved 2008-05-01.
  9. ↑ Baltes, Lucas. "PHP Figlet". Retrieved 2008-04-25.
  10. ↑ "Zend Framework – Zend_Text_Figlet Component".
  11. ↑ Jones, Christopher (2007). "pyfiglet". Retrieved 2014-11-27.
  12. ↑ Tincho (2007-03-25). "FIGLET: a totally useless, therefore essential tool". Archived from the original on March 30, 2007. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
  13. ↑ "TOIlet". Retrieved 2010-01-29.

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