ASCII Art Text Generator

This generator turns a word or short phrase into big letters drawn with keyboard characters, which is known as ASCII art. Pick one of six FIGlet fonts, Standard, Banner, Block, Big, Slant or Small, and copy the banner into a code comment, terminal, README file or plain-text email.

FIGlet is a free program from 1991 that draws text banners from font files made of characters such as _, |, / and #. Its fonts became a standard, and this tool uses the same font files in your browser. Standard is the classic default. Banner builds letters from # signs and draws small letters as capitals. Block uses tall strokes of _ and |. Big is taller and bolder, Slant leans to the right, and Small fits tight spaces.

ASCII art only lines up in a monospaced font, where every character has the same width. Paste it into a word processor with a normal font and the letters fall apart. In Markdown, wrap it in a ``` code block, and in HTML, put it inside a pre tag. Keep the text short, too. "Hello World" is 53 characters wide in Standard but 93 in Block, which is more than a standard 80-column terminal can show on one line.

The fonts are built for plain English letters, digits and common punctuation. Emoji are skipped, and Banner also skips most accented letters. For a divider line to put under your banner, the Text Repeater can repeat = or - as many times as you need.