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2007-11-08

Long live FIGlet

Nice & succinct write up on how to modify the logo graphic shown at the FreeBSD bootup. I was once again reminded of figlet which is a wonderful utility to convert text into ascii art...

> figlist | head -12
Default font: standard
Font directory: /usr/local/share/figlet
Figlet fonts in this directory:
banner
big
block
bubble
digital
ivrit
lean
mini
mnemonic
...


> figlet -f mini 'Franco'
_
|_.__.._ _ _
| |(_|| |(_(_)

> figlet -f shadow 'Franco'
____|
| __| _` | __ \ __| _ \
__| | ( | | | ( ( |
_| _| \__,_|_| _|\___|\___/

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1 Comments:

At 1:01 PM PDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.figlet.org/ has more information, and http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/figlet/figlet has an online version.

 

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