Create stylized ASCII art banners and text with multiple fonts and styles locally.
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About ASCII Art Text Generator
Turns text into ASCII art banners using FIGlet fonts such as Standard, Big, Slant, Doom, ANSI Shadow and about 40 others. You can change the horizontal and vertical layout (full width, fitted, smushing) and optionally wrap long text to a maximum column width. Each line of input becomes its own banner, and the result can be copied or downloaded as a .txt file.
Common uses
- Add a project banner to a README or the top of a source file
- Print a startup banner in a CLI tool or server log
- Make section headers in code comments or config files easier to spot
- Create text art for a terminal MOTD or login message
FAQ
- What is FIGlet?
- FIGlet is a program from 1991 that renders text as large letters made of ordinary characters, using font files (.flf). Many ASCII banner generators, including this one, use FIGlet fonts.
- What does 'smushing' mean in the layout options?
- Smushing lets adjacent letters overlap and merge shared characters so the banner is narrower. Full width keeps every letter at its full size, and fitted moves letters together until they touch without merging.
- Why does my ASCII art look broken when I paste it?
- ASCII art only lines up in a monospaced font. Paste it into a code block (for example triple backticks in Markdown) or any place that uses a fixed-width font.