Convert text into large ASCII art banners using classic FIGlet fonts with dozens of style options.
Type a word or phrase, pick a classic FIGlet font such as Standard, Slant, or Banner, and the tool redraws every character as a block of ordinary keyboard characters several lines tall. Each font stores every letter as a fixed-height cell of characters, and the tool stacks those cells side by side when it assembles the banner. Two things catch people out: the result is only legible in a monospaced font, so pasting it into a proportional-spaced email or document makes the letters collide; and a banner's width grows with every character you add, so a long phrase in a wide font quickly outruns a typical screen.
FIGlet fonts are plain-text files in the FIGfont format: a header line recording the font's height, baseline, and hardblank character, followed by one glyph block per character, each block exactly as many lines as the font's height. The tool reads the selected font, looks up each character of your input in it, and uses the stored blocks, including the hardblank fill for solid areas, to build the banner.
The tool walks each input line left to right and concatenates the matching glyph blocks row by row: output row 1 is the first line of every glyph, output row 2 the second line of every glyph, and so on for the font's full height. A newline starts a new banner, and the horizontal packing of glyphs follows the layout mode in the font's header: full-width, kerning, or smushing.
The gaps between letters come from the font, not from your input. Each glyph cell carries whatever padding the font defines, and the font's layout mode controls how adjacent cells are packed, including smushing, where overlapping strokes merge. To change the gaps, switch fonts, or insert spaces between the letters, since a space is a blank glyph of its own.
Almost certainly the destination is rendering it in a proportional font or collapsing runs of spaces. Wrap the text in a code block or preformatted style, or check for a monospace option, and paste into a plain text editor first to confirm the characters are intact. Chat apps that collapse whitespace destroy the shape no matter the font.
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