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figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
- milen 4y agoIf you have a Mac, Monodraw [1] includes figlet - just select a Font from the rect/text tool. It also supports custom/additional figlet fonts. [1] https://monodraw.helftone.com https://monodraw.helftone.com
- PaulHoule 4y agoFiglet is so much fun.
- mdtrooper 4y agoTwo useful links: - http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet : a figlet with vitamints - https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts https://github.com/xero/figlet-fonts : more fonts for figlet and toilet.
- schroeding 4y ago> http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/toilet Amazing logos / mascots. I love the whole site :D
- syoc 4y ago> TOIlet is in its very early development phase. Hrrmm, seems like last release was more than 10 years ago.
- merlincorey 4y agoThe `--filter=` values are pretty telling on that one.
- Noumenon72 4y agoI tried to Ctrl+F for these, but they're actually in the screenshot.
- cubes 4y agoLove Figlet, we used to use it frequently on the shared unix machine where members of the Berkeley Computer Science Undergraduate Association (CSUA) would hang out: https://www.csua.berkeley.edu/ https://www.csua.berkeley.edu/
- pvg 4y agoIt makes more sense if you mention that on soda, /etc/motd was used as a threaded forum and wall as realtime chat.
- cubes 4y agoTrue. Is soda still a thing? IIRC, soda also allowed non-root users to use the wall utility?
- schoen 4y agoPatched to say "Boredcast message", as I recall!
- cubes 4y agoYes, that is correct.
- pvg 4y agoI don't think it's been a thing for years and if you ask me, it stopped being a thing when the old Sequent Symmetry went. Not only non-root users could wall, remote users could wall. A smaller, sillier internet.
- cubes 4y agoI respectfully disagree. There was a vibrant community on soda well into the early aughts, even if it was running FreeBSD on x86 vs. some older more esoteric hardware architecture. It's good to see that the CSUA encyclopedia still exists somewhere, even if it's not hosted on soda anymore: https://www.erzo.org/shannon/writing/csua/encyclopedia.html https://www.erzo.org/shannon/writing/csua/encyclopedia.html I had the good fortune to meet and work with the primary author at a small games company called Skotos Tech during my later undergraduate years.
- adamrezich 4y agoanyone remember the web version at good ol' flamingtext.com/tools/figlet? rip
- carapace 4y agoI use http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/ http://www.patorjk.com/software/taag/ It has a "Test All" button that's fun.
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- riidom 4y agoI like to use the VSCode extension for this, ASCIIDecorator. It's good for having readable text in the Minimap.
- russellendicott 4y ago> It's good for having readable text in the Minimap. Nice. Good idea.
- Jaruzel 4y ago# figlet $HOSTNAME > /etc/motd On every box I own.
- salzig 4y ago+ #-CPU-Core + RAM Size. That's me. :)
- merlincorey 4y agoI gotta agree with someone named outworlder above -- you probably should look into `neofetch` as its output might please you.
- vogt 4y agoI made use of a “for fun” type React module called react-rainbow-ascii (paraphrasing) that had figlet integration that worked really nicely just yesterday. If the author stumbles upon this comment, just know I appreciate the ability to leverage all of the figlet fonts!
- muppetman 4y agoSimilar to this, many years ago on HN there was a website shared that would convert an image into HTML. I used it to generate the 404 image on my personal website: https://micro.muppetz.com/404 https://micro.muppetz.com/404 - Warning often causes older/slower browsers to really choke! If anyone remembers what that URL was, I'd love you to share it. No amount of googling recently has been able to find it, I expect it's probably lost to the sands of time. I've tried a few others I found on google but none produce anything like that quality.
- CameronNemo 4y agoIs there a point to converting an image to HTML? I can use various programs to convert an image to SVG.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoIf you have some interest in image processing, and know a little bit of HTML, a program like that would be a great learning project!
- muppetman 4y agoSadly the only programming "language" I know is ircII and that's not exactly in demand :)
- jdfellow 4y agolibcaca [0] command img2txt can output html [0] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca
- benjaminwootton 4y agoFrequently use figlet in shell scripts to demarcate sections. Very handy tool!
- kalleboo 4y agofiglet, cowsay and tractorgen are the essentials on any UNIX machine
- pvg 4y agoPrevious thread from 2020, 61 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24926979
- guessmyname 4y agoPeople re-post stuff like this all the time → https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ All the previous threads (plural) [1] have something interesting. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=figlet https://hn.algolia.com/?q=figlet
- pvg 4y agoAll the previous threads (plural) [1] have something interesting. That's the point of the previouslies-type comments
- dbacar 4y agoi was using this tool with watch to see some headline metrics :)
- nine_k 4y agoWow, the page has a few ftp:// links. The infrastructure must be really stable.
- Foomf 4y agoThere are so many web based ascii text generators out there. What sets this one apart? Edit: looks like all those web based ascii text generators are just using figlet under the hood.
- koolba 4y agoExisting multiple decades ago and being available on just about every FOSS operating system.
- Foomf 4y agoI just realized now that many of the web based ascii text generators use figlet under the hood. I wish I could delete my comment but I seem to be unable to.
- patorjk 4y agoI have a popular web based ascii text generator (https://patorjk.com/software/taag https://patorjk.com/software/taag), it uses FIGlet driver that I wrote (https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/ https://github.com/patorjk/figlet.js/). Many of the other ones out there also use their own drivers (I've seen some written in php and python). There are also different types of ASCII text fonts out there other than FIGlet (ex: my app compiles fonts that were made in the AOL days in the Arial font - which is interesting because it's a non-monospaced font). FIGlet is the most popular spec for these types of fonts though (it's an app and a spec). The mailing list hasn't been active in a decade, but people used to submit fonts there. It was cool to see what people made.
- m463 4y agoI've use figlet, then later toilet for readable log messages. apt-get install toilet toilet --filter border --font future compile starting
- sequoia 4y agoHere’s an intro to toilet (similar tool) I wrote a while back: https://sequoia.makes.software/fun-with-toilet/ https://sequoia.makes.software/fun-with-toilet/
- ghgr 4y agoI love figlet! I use it to generate the ssh banner in every server I set up. Not just for the l33t factor ;) but also to quickly confirm visually which host I'm connecting to (specially when multi-hopping, where you can see the whole chain of hosts). It works not only with pure ssh, but also with tools working on top of it (scp, rsync, port forwarding... I'm not sure if even sshfs).
- lgvld 4y agoSame here! I feel "at home" when I set a more personnal banner. ;-) Still I did not know figlet was a thing: I hitherto used the Text to ASCII Art Generator (from patorjk.com) to do so. So thank you for posting this. Obviously a CLI tool had to exist, but I never thought about it.
- outworlder 4y agoI like to use cowsay for this - in non-work settings. neofetch > motd is also nice. https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch 'c. <hostname redacted> ,xNMM. ---------------------------------- .OMMMMo OS: macOS Catalina 10.15.7 19H1519 x86_64 OMMM0, Host: MacBookPro13,3 .;loddo:' loolloddol;. Kernel: 19.6.0 cKMMMMMMMMMMNWMMMMMMMMMM0: Uptime: 5 days, 19 hours, 2 mins .KMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd. Packages: 38 (brew), 620 (nix-user) XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX. Shell: zsh 5.7.1 ;MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM: Resolution: 3440x1440 :MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM: DE: Aqua .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMX. WM: Quartz Compositor kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMWd. WM Theme: Orange (Light) .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMk Terminal: iTerm2 .XMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMK. Terminal Font: Iosevka-Fixed-Slab-Medium 16 kMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMd CPU: Intel i7-6700HQ (8) @ 2.60GHz ;KMMMMMMMWXXWMMMMMMMk. GPU: Intel HD Graphics 530, AMD Radeon Pro 450 .cooc,. .,coo:. Memory: 10974MiB / 16384MiB
- lathiat 4y agoI always used to use both. figlet | cowsay -n
- krnlpnc 4y agoOoh, do cowsay next!
- alephnan 4y agoHas anyone made a JavaScript port? Edit: ooh. There's this. But it's 6MB. https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet https://www.npmjs.com/package/figlet
- reportaman 4y agotext art with functional value: https://github.com/reportaman/arttime https://github.com/reportaman/arttime. It's displays your text art/figlet, while serving as a nifty clock/timer. No dependencies other than having zsh installed on your system, which exists on Mac by default.
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- silax 4y agoNice. I've used this for years. I love self-descriptive code so I use a `flowerbox` and `flowerpot` bash script daily, with flowerpot being just an alias of figlet.
- brontosaurusrex 4y agoI've 'ported' 3x3 and fakoo fonts to figlet/toilet format some time ago https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/2021/05/18/3x3-typeface/ https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/2021/05/18/3x3-typeface/