Big Text Skill

This skill allows you to generate large ASCII text banners using the figlet command.

Basic Usage

To create a basic banner using the standard font:

figlet "Hello World"

Specifying Fonts

You can change the style of the text by using the -f flag followed by the font name.

figlet -f slant "Hello"

Formatting Options

• Centering: Use -c to center the output.
• Right justify: Use -r to right justify.
• Left justify: Use -l (defaut).
• Width: Use -w <columns> to specify the output width (default is 80).

Example:

figlet -c -w 100 -f big "Centered Header"

Font Showcase

Below is a comprehensive list of available fonts categorized by style. Use these names with the -f flag.

Standard & Clean

• standard: The default font. Readable and classic.
• big: Larger version of standard.
• slant: Slanted/italic style. Very popular.
• smslant: Small slanted. Good for tighter spaces.
• small: Smaller, more compact characters.
• mini: Tiny text, good for footnotes.
• banner: Very large, wide characters (often rotates text to vertical on some systems, but effectively banner3 or similar is usually horizontal).
• digital: Resembles a digital clock display.
• term: Terminal style block text.

3D & Shadows

• shadow: Text with a drop shadow effect.
• smshadow: Small text with shadow.
• big: (Often has a 3D feel).
• larry3d: 3D block letters.
• block: Heavy block letters with 3D effect.
• 3-d: Wireframe 3D style.

Script & Cursive

• script: Connected cursive handwriting.
• smscript: Small script.
• slscript: Slanted script.
• cursive: Another cursive variant.

Novelty & Artistic

• bubble: Bubble letters.
• lean: Lean, tall letters.
• keyboard: Keys look like keyboard keys.
• fender: Fender guitar logo style.
• graffiti: Graffiti style (if available).
• doom: Style reminiscent of the Doom game logo.
• starwars: Star Wars logo style.
• weird: Artistic and strange shapes.
• alligator: Jagged, rough edges.
• dotmatrix: Dot matrix printer style.

Symbols & Abstract

• morse: Morse code output.
• binary: Binary representation.
• hex: Hexadecimal representation.

All Available Fonts

If you need a specific font not listed above, you can verify its existence by running:

ls $(figlet -I 2)

Common fonts found on many systems: 3-d, 3x5, 5lineoblique, acrobatic, alligator, alligator2, alphabet, avatar, banner, banner3, banner3-D, banner4, barbwire, basic, bell, big, bigchief, binary, block, bubble, bulbhead, calgphy2, caligraphy, catwalk, chunky, coinstak, colossal, computer, contessa, contrast, cosmic, cosmike, cricket, cursive, cyberlarge, cybermedium, cybersmall, diamond, digital, doh, doom, dotmatrix, double, drpepper, eftichess, eftifont, eftipiti, eftirobot, eftitalic, eftiwall, eftiwater, epic, fender, fourtops, fraktur, fuzzy, goofy, gothic, graceful, gradient, graffiti, greek, heart_left, heart_right, hex, hollywood, invita, isometric1, isometric2, isometric3, isometric4, italic, ivrit, jazmine, jerusalem, katakana, kban, keyboard, knob, larry3d, lcd, lean, letters, linux, lockergnome, madrid, marquee, maxfour, mike, mini, mirror, mnemonic, morse, moscow, nancyj, nancyj-fancy, nancyj-underlined, nipples, ntgreek, o8, ogre, pawp, peaks, pebbles, pepper, poison, puffy, pyramid, rectangles, relief, relief2, rev, roman, rot13, rounded, rowancap, rozzo, runic, runyc, sblood, script, serifcap, shadow, short, slant, slide, slscript, small, smisome1, smkeyboard, smscript, smshadow, smslant, speed, stacey, stampatello, standard, starwars, stellar, stop, straight, tanja, tengwar, term, thick, thin, threepoint, ticks, ticksslant, tinker-toy, tombstone, trek, tsalagi, twopoint, univers, usaflag, wavy, weird, whimsy, wow.

Examples of Specific Styles

Banner 3D

figlet -f banner3-D "3D TEXT"

Cyber Large

figlet -f cyberlarge "CYBER"

Doom

figlet -f doom "DOOM"

Epic

figlet -f epic "EPIC"

Speed

figlet -f speed "FAST"