Render text as large ASCII art banners using 14 built-in figlet fonts, with horizontal layout control.
Render text as large ASCII art banners using 14 built-in figlet fonts, with horizontal layout control. Render text as large ASCII art banners using 14 built-in figlet fonts, with horizontal layout control.
FIGlet is an old and beloved program (and the .flf file format it defined) for turning ordinary text into large ASCII art. Each character is drawn as a grid of characters -- commonly #, @, and spaces -- sized so that a whole word becomes a banner. The format has been around since 1991 and powers countless terminal greetings, code comments, and README headers. A FIGlet font file defines, for each printable ASCII character, a small bitmap plus metadata: the character height, the baseline, the maximum width, and the smushing rules that control how adjacent letters merge.
This tool bundles 14 hand-picked fonts so it works fully offline. They range from the clean classic Standard and Big, through decorative styles like Bubble, Block, and 3-D, to playful ones such as Star Wars, Doom, and Larry 3D. Compact fonts like Mini and Small suit long strings, while Slant and Speed give a dynamic italic feel. Because the fonts are embedded in the page, switching fonts is instant and no font file is ever downloaded.
The layout selector toggles how adjacent characters connect. In "horizontal" (default) mode, each character keeps its natural spacing and edges stay separate -- the safest, most readable choice. The "full" mode lets letters smush together: overlapping strokes are merged into a single character where the font's rules allow it, producing a denser, more calligraphic look that some fonts (like Slant or Speed) are designed around. Try both and pick what reads best for your banner.
The result is plain monospace text: copy it and paste into terminals, code comments, pull-request descriptions, or chat. It renders correctly anywhere that uses a monospace font. For very long inputs, prefer a compact font and keep the text short -- a 24-word phrase in a wide font can exceed typical terminal widths. Every keystroke re-renders locally via the bundled MIT figlet library, so nothing you type is ever transmitted.